Christopher Reeve Quotes

We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

We must provide leadership ... that erases self doubt.

You - and I have to remind myself of this - are capable beyond your wildest imagination.

We don't put limits on ourselves.

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

I just feel like there is nothing I cannot do.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

There is no such thing as can't.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

nothing is impossible

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!