Inspiring Star Trek Quotes That Boldly Go Beyond Limits

"Things are only impossible until they're not."

- Captain Picard

"Live long and prosper."

- Mr. Spock

"We are explorers; we explore our lives, day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge."

- Captain Picard

"Engage."

- Captain Picard

"Make it so."

- Captain Picard

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

- Spock

"To boldly go where no one has gone before."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

- Spock

"Change is the essential process of all existence."

- Spock

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived."

- Jean-Luc Picard

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

- Jean-Luc Picard

"I don't believe in a no-win scenario."

- Captain James T. Kirk

"Logic Clearly Dictates That The Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few."

- Spock

"It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions."

- Captain Sisko

"There are always possibilities."

- Spock

"Space: the final frontier."

- Captain James T. Kirk

"Having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

- Spock

"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."

- Spock

"We Work To Better Ourselves And The Rest Of Humanity."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"The whole show [“Star Trek”] was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but to take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. We tried to say that the worst possible thing that can happen to all of us is for the future to somehow press us into a common mould, where we begin to act and talk and look and think alike. If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there."

- Gene Roddenberry

"Risk Is Our Business."

- Captain James T. Kirk

"I Dare You To Do Better."

- Captain Christopher Pike

"A Starship Also Runs On Loyalty."

- Spock

"Maybe we weren’t meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can’t stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."

- James Kirk

"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That's not a weakness. That's life."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And its flaw."

- Captain Cathryn Janeway

"The most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is: ‘I do not know.’"

- Data

"Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity."

- Captain Kirk

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

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Fear exists for one purpose: to be conquered."

- Janeway

"Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"

- James Kirk

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."

- Spock

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

- Captain Picard

"Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind."

- Data

"Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her."

- Captain Kirk

"All ideas, Captain, seem like good ones at the time they are being undertaken. It is only with the full clarity of hindsight that we determine whether our initial impulses were correct or not."

- Spock

"On the Starship Enterprise no one is alone."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Keep any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. Do I make myself clear?"

- James T. Kirk

"Better to die saving lives than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into."

- Captain James T. Kirk

"I have been and always shall be your friend."

- Spock

"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they have done."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"We will find hope in the impossible."

- Spock

"Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."

- Dr. McCoy

"Confidence is faith in oneself. It can’t easily be given by another."

- Deanna Troi

"Insufficient facts always invite danger."

- Spock

"But one man can change the present."

- Kirk

"Improve a mechanical device, and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold."

- Khan Noonien Singh

"We Are Searching, Not Just For Answers To Our Questions. But For New Questions."

- Commander Benjamin Sisko

"Let's Make Sure History Never Forgets The Name Enterprise."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Spock, You Want To Know Something? Everybody's Human."

- Captain James T. Kirk

"In his quest to be more like us, he helped show us what it means to be human."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them."

- Commander Spock

"What Star Trek proves, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their vision-less leaders."

- Gene Roddenberry

"There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship and never abandon a member of your crew."

- Captain Kathryn Janeway

"No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"You do things now, just in case you happen to wake up dead tomorrow."

- Admiral McCoy

"Resistance is futile."

- The Borg

"Of All The Souls I've Encountered In My Travels, His Was The Most Human."

- Admiral James T. Kirk

"Life Must Be Worn Gloriously."

- Captain Christopher Pike

"One man cannot summon the future."

- Spock

"There are four lights!"

- Captain Picard

"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

- Captain Picard

"You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's its power. And its flaw."

- Captain Janeway

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy."

- Captain Janeway

"There is no such thing as the unknown, only things temporarily hidden."

- Captain Kirk

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

- Jean Luc Picard

"Compassion — That’s the one thing that no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."

- Leonard McCoy

"There are times where it is necessary for a captain to give the appearance of confidence."

- Jean Luc Picard

"A dead man cannot learn from his mistakes."

- Benjamin Sisko

"When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like… like old leather. And finally… becomes so familiar that one can’t ever remember feeling any other way."

- Jean Luc Picard

"Liberty and freedom have to be more than just words."

- James Kirk

"It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."

- Odo

"Before you can be loyal to another, you must be loyal to yourself."

- Bashir

"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Wishing for a thing does not make it so."

- Jean Luc Picard

"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."

- James Kirk

"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true."

- Spock

"Leadership grows from self-confidence."

- Deanna Troi

"You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential."

- Dr. Paul Stubbs

"Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

- James T. Kirk

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

- Spock

"Life is like tetris, your mistakes pile up and your accomplishments disappear."

- Lt. Commander La Forge

"If I were human, I believe my response would be 'go to hell.'... If I were human."

- Spock

"It can be argued that a human is ultimately the sum of his experiences."

- Benjamin Sisko

"Always burn your bridges behind you. You never know who might be trying to follow."

- Enabran Tain

"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think."

- Jean Luc Picard

"Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure."

- James Kirk

"It's not you I hate, Cardassian. It's what I became because of you."

- MOB

"Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice."

- James Kirk

"Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison."

- Jean Luc Picard

"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone - including their parents."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Death is that state in which one only exists in the memory of others; which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories."

- Tasha Yar

"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged."

- Jean Luc Picard

"Virtue is a relative term."

- Spock

"That’s the thing about faith. If you don’t have it, you can’t understand it, and if you do have it… No explanation is necessary."

- Kira Nerys

"In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see."

- Spock

"Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language:... Please help me."

- James Kirk

"Above all else, a god needs compassion!"

- McCoy

"When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments."

- Diane Duane

"Infinite diversity in infinite combinations."

- Vulcan Philosophy

"A dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars."

- Kirk

"Telling us why you’re going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise."

- Beverly Crusher

"The only real question is whether you believe in the legend of Davy Crockett or not. If you do, then there should be no doubt in your mind that he died the death of a hero. If you do not believe in the legend, then he was just a man and it does not matter how he died."

- Worf

"A lie is a very poor way to say hello."

- Edith Keeler

"This is the power of math, people!"

- Spock

"Being first, at any cost, is not always the point."

- Jean Luc Picard

"I would gladly risk feeling bad at times if it also meant that I could taste my dessert."

- Data

"Edith Keeler must die."

- Spock

"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."

- Dr. Leonard McCoy

"...And my underwear are flame-retardant. Doesn't mean I'm gonna light myself on fire to prove it."

- Trip Tucker

"Second star to the right straight on till morning."

- Jim Kirk (quoting Peter Pan)

"Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies."

- Quark

"I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!"

- Scotty

"All it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."

- a plain simple tailor

"Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

"Fate... protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise."

"What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."

"Space, the final frontier."

"By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be avenged."