Top 60 Christopher Reeve Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

— Christopher Reeve

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2. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

— Christopher Reeve

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3. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

— Christopher Reeve

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4. “There is no such thing as can’t.”

— Christopher Reeve

5. “Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.”

— Christopher Reeve

6. “Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.”

— Christopher Reeve

7. “You’ve got to give more than you take.”

— Christopher Reeve

8. “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”

— Christopher Reeve

9. “I have never been disabled in my dreams.”

— Christopher Reeve

10. “If you don’t have a vision, nothing happens.”

— Christopher Reeve

11. “I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.”

— Christopher Reeve

12. “Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.”

— Christopher Reeve

13. “Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There’s no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you’re a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.”

— Christopher Reeve

14. “In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.”

— Christopher Reeve

15. “I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don’t know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.”

— Christopher Reeve

16. “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.”

— Christopher Reeve

17. “Don’t put a limit on what can be accomplished.”

— Christopher Reeve

18. “You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don’t let anybody say you can’t do it.”

— Christopher Reeve

19. “Every scientist should remove the word ‘impossible’ from their lexicon.”

— Christopher Reeve

20. “A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.”

— Christopher Reeve

21. “What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.”

— Christopher Reeve

22. “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”

— Christopher Reeve

23. “I remember telling a neurosurgeon, “Don’t give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset.””

— Christopher Reeve

24. “On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, “We found nothing is impossible.” That should be our motto.”

— Christopher Reeve

25. “I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.”

— Christopher Reeve

26. “A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.”

— Christopher Reeve

27. “Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they’re more paralyzed than I am.”

— Christopher Reeve

28. “Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can’t move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.”

— Christopher Reeve

29. “Even if your body doesn’t work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.”

— Christopher Reeve

30. “You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.”

— Christopher Reeve

31. “Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”

— Christopher Reeve

32. “You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.”

— Christopher Reeve

33. “When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.”

— Christopher Reeve

34. “We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don’t need to break your neck to find out about them.”

— Christopher Reeve

35. “To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.”

— Christopher Reeve

36. “Even though I don’t personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.”

— Christopher Reeve

37. “If I can laugh, I can live.”

— Christopher Reeve

38. “It’s defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it’s hard to resist considering what might have been.”

— Christopher Reeve

39. “I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.”

— Christopher Reeve

40. “I’m not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.”

— Christopher Reeve

41. “I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.”

— Christopher Reeve

42. “People may never understand this – and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not – but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.”

— Christopher Reeve

43. “Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.”

— Christopher Reeve

44. “We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community’s vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.”

— Christopher Reeve

45. “What can I do today to take a step forward?”

— Christopher Reeve

46. “By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.”

— Christopher Reeve

47. “Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.”

— Christopher Reeve

48. “The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I’m not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.”

— Christopher Reeve

49. “I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn’t a prediction.”

— Christopher Reeve

50. “My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He’s great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.”

— Christopher Reeve