Top 44 Disability Quotes

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You don’t have to let your disabilities define yourself. With that in mind, check out the top 44 disability quotes.

#44 – 40. Disability Quotes

44. Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. – Stella Young

43. The sense of an entailed disadvantage — the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. – George Eliot

42. ….What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come. – Joey Reiman

41. I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means, I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune, I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. – Helen Keller

40. When everyone else says you can’t, determination says, YES YOU CAN. – Robert M. Hensel

#39 – 30. Disability Quotes

39. The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. – Friedrich Nietzsche

38. My ability is greater than my disability. – Nikki Rowe

37. If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. – Margaret Meade

36. We think we know what it’s all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don’t expect to see disabled people in our daily lives. – Stella Young

35. Enable the disabled; Translate disability into ability; Capability, a winning opportunity indeed a reality. – Dr. Veena Kumari

34. Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway – Mary Kay Ash

33. Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. – Lawrence Bixby

32. We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

31. Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. Emma Thompson

30. The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. – Warwick Davis

#29 – 20. Disability Quotes

29. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. – Stephen Hawking

28. One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. – Douglas Adams

27. I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness their disability. And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities. – Aimee Mullins

26. I have not been handicapped by my condition. I am physically challenged and differently able. – Janet Barnes

25. Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. – Martina Navratilova

24. Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. – Simone Weil

23. Every person with a disability is an individual. – Itzhak Perlman

22. I have a Disability yes that’s true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you. – Robert M. Hensel

21. Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason. – Charles Dickens

20. I choose not to place DIS, in my ability. – Robert M. Hensel

#19 – 10. Disability Quotes

19. The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate. – Charles Horton Cooley

18. My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities. – Robert M. Hensel

17. Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well. – Sandy Fussell

16. There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. – Sharron Angle

15. We, the ones 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

14. The strong, ferocious wind just made the chill worse, and as it blew around me, electric bursts of pain shot through my body. – Jennifer Starzec

13. Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI. – Sarah Todd Hammer

12. Know me for my abilities, not my disability. – Robert M. Hensel

11. My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. – Stephen Hawking

10. 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

#9 – 1. Disability Quotes

9. Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

8. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. – Helen Keller

7. For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. – Mark Haddon

6. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Albert Einstein

5. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body. – Sloane Crosley

4. I don’t have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability. – Robert M. Hensel

3. Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that’s not true. Having a disability doesn’t stop me from doing anything. – Benjamin Snow

2. I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn’t think I could do. – David A. Paterson

1. People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone. – Aimee Mullins

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