Handicaps Quotes - Page 5

• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Beautiful, Brother, Attitude

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• Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

  Napoleon Hill

  Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Children, Doctors

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.16, Penguin

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• I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, People, Giving

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• I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Roman Numerals, Games

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Technology, Men

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Extras, Dose

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes?

  Katie MacAlister

  Heart, Cutting, Males

  Katie Macalister (2008). “Up In Smoke: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.115, Penguin

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• You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Trying, Looks, Faces

  "Audrey Hepburn" by Barry Paris, (p. 108), 2002.

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• [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

  Jim Butcher

  Dog, Kids, Animal

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1679, Penguin

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Thinking, Sight

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• Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

  Stuart Hill

  Madness, Irrationality, Ifs

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• Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

  Marie Pitt

  Women, Motherhood, Average

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• The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has lost all contact with the Church and no longer knows who Jesus is. That would be like clothing a baby with one of those enormous, heavy brocaded copes that priests and bishops used to wear. Instead, it is necessary to help this person establish a relationship with Jesus.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Christian, Baby, Jesus

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Blind

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

  Napoleon Hill

  Goal, May, Stones

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.37, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

  Paul Chambers

  Education, Strong, Real

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• My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Black, Jew

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

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• practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Evil, Effort, Purpose

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

  Marion Cotillard

  Heart, People, Soul

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• You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Helping, Unexpected

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• A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

  Ishmael Beah

  Thinking, Forget Everything, People

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