“There are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“We all have our darker side. We need it! It’s half of what we are. It’s not really ugly, it’s human.” - Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Original Series
“The intelligence, the logic. It appears your half has most of that, and perhaps that’s where man’s essential courage comes from.” - Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Original Series
“You either believe in yourself or you don’t.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown-only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“In this galaxy, there’s a mathematical probability of three million earth-type planets … and in all the universe, three million million galaxies like this one. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us.” - Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Original Series
“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“There are always alternatives.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Superior ability breeds superior ambition.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Too much of anything, even love, isn’t necessarily a good thing.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. … You can’t simply say, ‘Today I will be brilliant.’ ” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Without followers, evil cannot spread.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“There’s another way to survive. Mutual trust and help.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Change is the essential process of all existence.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“Forget.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series
“How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
“Understanding has made friends of many different people.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“The search for knowledge is always our primary mission.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It’s human nature to love what we don’t have.” - Geordi LaForge, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Confidence is faith in oneself. It can’t easily be given by another.” - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“We can’t protect ourselves against the unknown.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Respect is earned, not bestowed.” - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It is the differences that have made us strong.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader. … Because you will lose their confidence? … And you may begin to believe in those limitations yourself.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Data, and Beverly Crusher, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It is at the heart of our nature to feel pain and joy. It is an essential part of what makes us what we are.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It is part of our life cycle that we accept the death of those we love. … We are mortal. Our time in this universe is finite. That is one of the truths that all humans must learn.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“We must strive to be more than what we are. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“The more difficult the task, the sweeter the victory.” - William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Being first at any cost is not always the point.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Without trust, there can be no friendship, no closeness. None of the emotional bonds that make us what we are. Love itself is a leap of faith.” - William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Human intuition and instinct are not always right. But they do make life interesting.” - Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“There is something to be learned when you’re not in control of every situation.” - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“If being human is not simply a matter of being born flesh and blood … if it is instead a way of thinking, acting … and feeling … then I am hopeful that one day I will discover my own humanity. Until then, I will continue … learning, changing, growing … and trying to become more than what I am.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Most everyone has a moment in their lives when they exceed their own limits … achieve what seems to be impossible. … You almost always feel a sense of loss. But it’s possible to carry something of that experience through the rest of your life-in ways that you’re not even aware of now.” - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. A man’s life, his future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based. If you can’t find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened you don’t deserve to wear that uniform.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Seize the time. Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“One of the most important things in a person’s life is to feel useful.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“If you want to get ahead, you have to take chances, stand out in a crowd, get noticed.” - William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“I realized that if I were simply a machine, then I could never be anything else-I could not grow beyond my programming. I found that difficult to accept. I chose to believe that I was a person, that I had the potential to become more than a collection of circuits and subprocessors. It is a belief that I still hold.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“I have found that humans value their uniqueness, that sense that they are different from everyone else.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Part of being human is learning how to deal with the unexpected. To risk new experiences even when they don’t fit into your preconceptions.” - Geordi LaForge, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“I chose instead to treat the problems I was having with my systems as … challenges to be overcome, instead of obstacles to be avoided.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“There are things we do not understand, yet they exist nonetheless.” - Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“We are what we are, and we’re doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life … learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances. … Sometimes it takes courage to try. Courage can be an emotion too.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Generations
“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Generations
“Buried deep within you, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Nemesis
“It can be argued that a human is ultimately the sum of his experiences.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“My species lives in one point in time. And once we move beyond that point, it becomes the past. The future, all that is still to come, does not exist yet for us.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“We’re aware that every choice we make has a consequence. … We use past experience to help guide us.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives, day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Too many people dream of places they’ll never go, wish for things they’ll never have, instead of paying adequate attention to their real lives.” - Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“There’s more to life than profit.” - Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“It’s your life. You have to choose your own way. There is only one thing I want from you. Find something you love, then do it the best you can.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Before you can be loyal to another, you must be loyal to yourself.” - Julian Bashir, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“The one thing I’ve learned about humanoids is that in extreme situations even the best of you are capable of doing terrible things.” - Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Being an outsider isn’t so bad. It gives one a unique perspective.” - Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“If you want to know who you are, it’s important to know who you’ve been.” - Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Running may help for a little while, but sooner or later the pain catches up with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground and face it.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Poke your head up every once in a while. Take a look around. See what’s going on. It’s life. And you can miss it if you don’t open your eyes.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“There’s always a choice.” - Kira Nerys, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“If there’s no risk, there’s no thrill. … If you want to win big, you’ve got to be willing to play the odds.” - Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“The bigger the risk, the bigger the win.” - Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“I’ve found that when it comes to doing what’s best for you, you humanoids have the distressing habit of doing the exact opposite.” - Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“There comes a time in every man’s life when he must stop thinking and start doing.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“It’s not a crime to believe in yourself.” - Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“What’s done is done. Brooding isn’t going to change anything, and shirking your responsibilities isn’t going to make you feel better about yourself.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“One of the things you’ll learn as you move up the ranks and get a little older is that you wish you had more time in your youth to really absorb all the things that happened to you. It goes by so fast. It’s so easy to become jaded, to treat the extraordinary like just another day at the office, but sometimes there are experiences which transcend all that.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“We often fear what we do not understand. Our best defense is knowledge.” - Tuvok, Star Trek: Voyager
“Fear only exists for one purpose. To be conquered.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“I’ve found that when you don’t think about a problem, sometimes the solution comes to you.” - Chakotay, Star Trek: Voyager
“Nothing’s impossible if you want it badly enough.” - B’Elanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager
“You are erratic, conflicted, disorganized. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
“One voice can be stronger than a thousand voices. Your mind is independent now, with its own unique identity.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“We all have a past. What matters is now.” - Tom Paris, Star Trek: Voyager
“I am finding it a difficult challenge to integrate into this group. It is full of complex social structures that are unfamiliar to me. Compared with the Borg, this crew is inefficient and contentious, but it is capable of surprising acts of compassion.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
“Unexpected acts of kindness are common among our group. That’s one of the ways we define ourselves.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“Imagination, creativity, fantasy. … They aren’t necessary. But they’re an important part of one’s life, because imagination frees the mind. It inspires ideas and solutions, and it can provide a great deal of pleasure. Human progress, the human mind itself, couldn’t exist without them.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“We’re stronger as a team. One crew, one ship. The moment we split apart, we lose the ability to pool our talents. We become vulnerable. We’ll get picked off one by one.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“Part of becoming human is learning to have compassion for those who are suffering, even when they’re your bitter enemies.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“A single act of compassion can put you in touch with your own humanity.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“You have to start learning the difference between having an impulse and acting on it.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“We must both accept the fact that very few life forms will ever meet our high standards. So, when you get irritated, just try to be tolerant, and remember, they can’t help being what they are.” - The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager
“When faced with desperate circumstances, we must adapt.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
“Perhaps you dislike being alone.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek Voyager
“ ‘Impossible’ is a word that humans use far too often.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
“Sometimes you’ve got to look back in order to move forward.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
“There is strength in unity.” - Nyota Uhura, Star Trek Beyond
“We will do what we always done. We will find hope in the impossible.” - Spock, Star Trek Beyond
“My wee Granny used to say, ye canna’ break a stick in a bundle. You’re part of something bigger now. Don’t you give up on that, because we’ll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about.” - Montgomery Scott, Star Trek Beyond
“We change. We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek Beyond
“It wasn’t just me. It never is.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek Beyond