Disability Quotes · Page 4

“We all have disabilities. What’s yours?”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Never ignore somebody with a disability, you don't realize how much they can inspire you.

— Anonymous

Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

— Itzhak Perlman

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

My relationship with my disability hasn't always been positive.

— Alex Brooker

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

— Oscar Pistorius

Disfigurement and disability is unique in terms of you don't get it until you get it.

— Adam Pearson

I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

— Robert M. Hensel

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

— Cynthia Nixon

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

— Jameela Jamil

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

— Stella Young

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the…

— Loretta Young

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think…

— David Paterson

“The corrupt government’s attitude towards the disabled is to turn them into homeless street beggars.”

— Steven Magee

There's such negativity around disability, so when I knew I had to use a wheelchair, it was worse than death almost.

— Liz Carr

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a…

— Christopher

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They…

— Darold Treffert

“It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right…

— Allan Hennessy

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the…

— Lauren Potter

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get…

— Susan Boyle

A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s…

— Simon Pegg

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been…

— Major Owens

“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is rigged to allow your employer to willfully damage your health and disability is rigged to…

— Steven Magee

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate…

— Aimee Mullins

New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed…

— Anonymous

“You can't keep your seat?' 'No.' It's barely a whisper, and the heat of embarrassment scorches my skin.' 'How the hell can…

— Rebecca Yarros

“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a…

— Richard Stearns

I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by…

— Hillary Clinton

What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end…

— Catherine Mayer

Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I…

— Kelly Knox

There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and…

— Darold Treffert

“Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part…

— Namsoon Kang

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes

— Oscar Pistorius

“Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed.”

— Marc David O'Brien

“I am physically disabled, but they are culturally and socially disabled'.”

— Bbcstories

“I will crawl upon my knees just to know the joy of suffering.”

— Sidewalk Prophets

Lack of skill of communication makes oneself handicapped of sharing views and knowledge.

— Andrew Guzaldo

I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

— Donovan

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

— Warwick Davis