Disability Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Disability
Disability Quotes & Sayings
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He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
— Toni Morrison
Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.
— Randolph Bourne
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
— Warwick Davis
But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
— William Gibson
Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself? ... Or, to "be" himself?
— Milkweed L. Augustine
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
— Robert M. Hensel
What's it like here?
There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones. — Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth
There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones. — Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth
The world isn't built with a ramp.
— Walt Balenovich
And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!
— Dominique Wilkins
One person's disability is another person's culture." As
— Jodi Picoult
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.
— Stephen Hawking
She would prove to everyone she could do everything. She wouldn't let her disability be an excuse, wouldn't give anyone reason to pity her.
— Liz Grace Davis
teaching the students I did before the accident helped me understand that a disability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be handled
— Amy Rankin
Kindness transcends the boundaries of language, sickness, or disability. It is universal human gift we all have to give and receive so don't waste it.
— Demi Lovato
I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
— Oscar Pistorius
There is a lot more to Autism, to simply call it a disability.
— Tina J. Richardson
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
— Annette Funicello
What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.
— J. David Smith
He'd killed people, lots of them if he cared to count. Which he didn't.
— Jackie Williams
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
— Scott Hamilton
My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.
— Rick Hansen
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
— Stella Young
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.
— Jim Abbott
If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
— Peter J. Carroll
Disability need not be an obstacle to success.
— Stephen Hawking
As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.
— Robert M. Hensel
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
— Amy Purdy
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.
— Thomas E. Reynolds
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
— Jim Abbott
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
— Henry Winkler
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
— Stella Young
Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.
— Nick Vujicic
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
— Karen Joy Fowler
Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
— William Rehnquist
Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.
— Yvonne Pierre
Abled does not mean enabled.
Disabled does not mean less abled. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Disabled does not mean less abled. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.
— Stella Young
We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.
— Michel Sidibe
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
— Jason Alexander
I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me.
— Katherine Locke
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
— Stella Young
Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
— Neil Marcus
Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.
— Robert Winston
I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.
— Bruce Jenner
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
— Stella Young
I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
— Robert M. Hensel
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude.
— Chris Vonada
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
— Marlee Matlin
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,
— Tim Berners-Lee
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
— Stella Young
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
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
— J.G. Farrell
I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
— Sarah Palin
I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
— Arthur Bradford
When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'
— Robert M. Hensel
Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
— Patrick Henry Hughes
My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time.
— Stephen Hawking
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world
— Viktoria Modesta
Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.
— Nick Vujicic
Who's to say death is better than your darkness?
— Daniel Keyes
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
— Oscar Pistorius
Know me for my abilities, not my disability.
— Robert M. Hensel
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
— Solange Nicole
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
— Douglas Adams
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
— Jane Chen
I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
— Jackie Walorski
Forget what you know about disability.
— Viktoria Modesta
Limitations only go so far.
— Robert M. Hensel
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
— Robert M. Hensel
Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon.
— Bryan Islip
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
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
— Charles Dickens
I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.
— Bill Austin
Don't call us people with disabilities ... we have DIFFabilities!
— Edward Barbanell
I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.
— Francesca Zappia
I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
— Oscar Pistorius
An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.
— Charisse Montgomery
My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.
— The Arbinger Institute
We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles
— Amy Purdy