Top 10 Picard Quotes

Things are only impossible until they’re not!

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Ensigns of Command’.

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

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Inner Light’.

The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools, openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: Picard, ‘Broken Pieces’.

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all…we’re only mortal.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek Generations (1994 Film).

You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Man of the People’.

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

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.

If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Encounter At Farpoint’.

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

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Peak Performance’.

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

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Skin of Evil’.

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

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.