16 Patrick Stewart Quotes That Will Inspire You to Take Action

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men. It’s in our hands to stop violence against women.

I’d been given a voice that I didn’t know was available to me, and it was to speak seriously and with a proper level of involvement on issues of inequality and unfairness.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.

There's no such thing as ‘just a domestic’.

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

I think that for the moment, at least, we are as good as it gets. And the good, the potential good in us is still to be explored... so that we can become better human beings to ourselves as well as to others. And I sometimes feel we’re only at the threshold of those discoveries.