Disability Quotes · Page 12

I think people shouldn't think 'I'm not normal, I've got a disability.' Overcome that, go out there and enjoy your life and…

— Ellie Simmonds

Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way…

— Brad Cohen

“If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes - not in institutions.

— Kevin de Leon

“People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.”

— President Barack Obama

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

— Ernest Holmes

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

Pain is Pain. Broken is broken. Fear is the biggest disability of all. And will paralyze you more than you being in…

— Nick Vujicic

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our…

— John Lynch

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and…

— Vinton Cerf

Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up...…

— Cynthia Nixon

Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's…

— Kate Bornstein

Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with…

— Chris Burke

People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best…

— Gerald McRaney

People with disabilities and health conditions have enough challenges in life. Dealing with my department should not be one of them. So…

— Amber Rudd

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a…

— Anonymous

There are things that I really find important, and that we need to remind ourselves of. When you think about disability, do…

— Idris Elba

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or…

— Fred Rogers

In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So…

— Steven C. Hayes

“If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to…

— Stephen Hawking

“In 1996, when Senator Bob Dole runs against President Clinton, it’s a historic moment for people with disabilities. No one with a…

— Ben Mattlin

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

— Kristoffer Polaha

“The corporate government is completely okay with sending sickened people into extreme poverty for the rest of their lives by blatantly denying…

— Steven Magee

“Denying disabled workers their disability and workers compensation payments is akin to turning them into a slave.”

— Steven Magee

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word…

— Stella Young

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…

— Stella Young

Disability-if you want called it that- might be part of my life, but it doesn't DEFINE me.If anything it EMPOWERS me...

— JREYES

I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path…

— Robert M. Hensel

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the…

— Ike Skelton

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

— Douglas Adams

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I am reminded of the millions of disabled people that were denied their disability…

— Steven Magee

“A disabled body does not mean a disabled life—spirit, faith, and creativity still know how to walk.”

— Angelika Regossi

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be…

— Carson Kressley

Why do we let blind people and people in wheelchairs become citizens? I feel sorry for cripples, but that doesn't mean I…

— Ann Coulter

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to…

— Stephen Hawking

“I’m really tired”, you come to understand, is meaningless, giving the impression all will be well with a good rest and that…

— Frances Ryan

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

— Zach Anner

“I was surprised at the great lengths that the government goes to in order to deny eligible disability claims.”

— Steven Magee

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

— Stella Young

I'm on disability now. But I paid into it my whole life. And I hated getting it - I waited seven years…

— Ken Wahl