Christopher Reeve Quotes

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

God has given man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

What really makes a hero a hero is if you take that person's hand, and you walk with that person, and they have a lot of weaknesses, but in the end, they overcome all of their obstacles.

Courage makes victory possible.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

But desperate people find courage.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

In valor there is hope.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

I am not better or cleverer than anyone of you. But I remain undaunted, and that is why the leadership belongs to me. In darker moments than the present I did not lose courage—indeed I made still greater sacrifices.

Now on life's dreary plain. We must wait, like the Stoic, Brave, enduring, and strong, Till the soul's strength heroic Bend the fetters of wrong

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.