quotes about Disability
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
-- Aimee Mullins -
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
-- Aimee Mullins -
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
-- Ali Khamenei -
We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles
-- Amy Purdy -
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
-- Andrew Greeley -
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
-- Annette FunicelloSource : Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks
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I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.
-- Bill Austin -
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
-- Bill ShortenSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
-- Carl Karcher -
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
-- Charles Dickens -
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
-- Charles W. Pickering -
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I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.
-- Christopher Reeve -
It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
-- Curt Weldon -
There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
-- Danica McKellar -
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.
-- David Brenner -
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A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
-- David R. Brower -
And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!
-- Dominique Wilkins -
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone
-- Donald A. Norman -
Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!
-- Edward Barbanell -
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Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilitiesâ€
-- Erik Weihenmayer -
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
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We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
-- Florida Scott-MaxwellSource : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.6, Knopf
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I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.
-- Geraldo RiveraSource : Source: www.foxnews.com
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Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.
-- Hugh HerrSource : "The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
-- J. G. Farrell -
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
-- Janet Reno -
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Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
-- Jessa Gamble -
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
-- Jim Abbott -
There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.
-- Jim Abbott -
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.
-- Jim Abbott -
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You don't have to have a disability to be different.
-- Kim Peek -
Your disability is your opportunity.
-- Kurt HahnSource : Speech by Ms Chia Yong Yong at the SPD Education Programme Awards Presentation Ceremony, www.spd.org.sg. January 28, 2011.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,
-- Laura LinneySource : "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.
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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
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I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .
-- Loretta Young -
Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.
-- Marg Helgenberger -
Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
-- Mary Bono -
Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
-- Morgan Freeman -
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It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
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Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.
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Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
-- Neil Marcus -
I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
-- Nick VujicicSource : Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015
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Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.
-- Nick Vujicic -
The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.
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Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.
-- Nick VujicicSource : Twitter post from Feb 01, 2016
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In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.
-- Nick Vujicic -
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I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
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You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
-- Oscar PistoriusSource : "Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamber" by Gary Morley and Robyn Curnow, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2011.
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The only disability in life is having a bad attitude
-- Oscar PistoriusSource : Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
-- Patrick Henry Hughes -
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If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
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My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
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I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won
-- Robert M. Hensel -
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
Know me for my abilities, not my disability.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
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As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
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Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
-- Stella YoungSource : ""I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April 2014.
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Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.
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The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,
-- Tim Berners-Lee -
Disability is the inability to see ability.
-- Vikas KhannaSource : Twitter post from May 28, 2012
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Forget what you know about disability.
-- Viktoria ModestaSource : "Amputee Pop Star Viktoria Modesta Doesn't Care If You're Uncomfortable". Interview with Alyssa Bailey, www.elle.com. December 22, 2014.
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I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world
-- Viktoria ModestaSource : "Viktoria Modesta: Bionic Woman". Interview with Jazz Monroe, www.dazeddigital.com. April 30, 2015.
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I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
-- Arthur BradfordSource : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
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When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
-- Jay RudermanSource : Source: abilitymagazine.com
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We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.
-- Kelly KnoxSource : Source: abilitymagazine.com
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There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.
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Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.
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I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.
-- Simi Linton -
The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.
-- Zach Anner -
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
-- Zach Anner -
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
-- Zach Anner -
Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.
-- Brad Cohen -
Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.
-- Chris Burke -
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Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!
-- Edward BarbanellSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.
-- Scoot McNairySource : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.
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My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
-- Stella Young