Handicaps Quotes

• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Adversity, Knowing Who You Are

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Education, Children

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• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stupid, Power, Intellectual

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• There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

  Jim Davis

  Art, Writing, Loss

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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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• My handicap? Woods and irons.

  Chris Codiroli

  Funny, Golf, Iron

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• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

  Sports, Dirty, Golf

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• Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Pain, Attitude

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.79, Bantam

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• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Copying

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Needs, Disability, People With Disabilities

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• I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Special, Literature

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• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Eight, Seven Months, Seven Days

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Writing, Golf, Games

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

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• This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Challenges, Hollywood

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• Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

  Erwin Rommel

  Fighting, Air, Enemy

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• Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

  Golda Meir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Break Up, Breakup, Golf

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• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists". Book by Anne Chisholm, 1972.

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Absence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

  Anil Kapoor

  Hardship, Faces, Hurdling Obstacles

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

  Gil Gerard

  Couple, Golf, Years

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• I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

  Major Taylor

  Sympathy, Knowing, Feelings

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

  Gordie Howe

  Pain, Attitude, Hockey

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