Special Needs Children Quotes

• Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

  Sarah Palin

  Children, Joy, Challenges

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

  Cherie Blair

  Children, Special, Important

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• Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

  Allen Klein

  Children, Treasure, Difficult Times

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• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Children, Struggle

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• You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

  Lori Borgman

  Mother, Horse, Children

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• It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Children, Parent, Special

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  John Wayne

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

  Sarah Palin

  Children, Autism, Inspire

  Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2008.

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

  J. P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

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• The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Sibling, Special

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• To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

  Sarah Palin

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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