Disabilities Quotes
Collection of top 61 famous quotes about Disabilities
Disabilities Quotes & Sayings
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In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
— Dannel Malloy
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.
— Donna Kirk
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
— Stella Young
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
— Stella Young
most important characteristics of exceptional learners are their abilities, not their disabilities.
— Daniel P. Hallahan
If I don't try to move, I don't have to find out what parts don't work. Lauren Crowder to Alan Gregory
— Stephen White
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
— Roger Goodell
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities
— Erik Weihenmayer
Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed.
— Marc David O'Brien
When the one is sacrificed, the many are also deprived!
— John Barone
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.
— Ray Charles
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Pectoral implants? My God! The man's had a boob job!
— Jackie Williams
People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
— Helen Keller
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.
— Maysoon Zayid
I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.That isn't my story. — Gillian Marchenko
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
— Kevin Sorbo
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
— Jean Vanier
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
— Judy Woodruff
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience.
— James I. Charlton
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
— Stephen Hawking
If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
— Temple Grandin
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
— Douglas Adams
Know me for my abilities, not my disability.
— Robert M. Hensel
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
— Oscar Pistorius
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.
— Barack Obama
Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
— Patrick Henry Hughes
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
— Bill Shorten
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
— Paul Levinson
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.
— Karni Liddell
When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The message I'll share ... is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
— Clay Aiken
Don't call us people with disabilities ... we have DIFFabilities!
— Edward Barbanell
There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
— Danica McKellar
I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.
— Bill Austin
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
— Willard Wigan
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
— Donald Norman
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.
— Stella Young
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.
— David Brenner