Christopher Reeve Quotes

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

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.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

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.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

If we don’t dream of the possible, the possible never happens.

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.

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

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I’m willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

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.

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

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.