Disability Quotes

• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

  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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• Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

  Stevie Wonder

  Music, Mean, Eye

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• Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

  Martina Navratilova

  Autism, Perception, Needs

  "Grand Ideas from Within". Book by Janice M. Mcdermott, Joan Stewart (p. 15), 2005.

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• It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

  Jim Abbott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, True Friend

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  I don't need easy, I just need possible.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Positivity

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

  Emma Thompson

  Inspiration, Mean, Should

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• 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

  Mean, Different, May

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

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

  Neil Marcus

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

  "Storm Reading". Play by Neil Marcus, Rod Lathim, Roger Marcus and Access Theater, shown on television and performed at the Kennedy Center (1992); later quoted in Adam Benjamin "Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers" (p. 23), 2002.

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The only true disability is a crushed spirit

  Aimee Mullins

  Spirit, Crushed

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• It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

  Marlee Matlin

  Crazy, Autism, Madness

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• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  Major Owens

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

  Chaka Fattah

  People, African American, Benefits

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• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Safety, Important, Age

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• I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Joy, Style

  "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Elderly, Cost, Care

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• A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Girl, Anxiety, Political

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• For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

  Annette Funicello

  Doe, Way, Wheelchairs

  Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

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• I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Portraits, Faces

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• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  Major Owens

  Country, People, Giving

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

  Clay Aiken

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Hair, Age, Causes

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