Disability Quotes · Page 5

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

— Robert M. Hensel

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

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

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

— Charles W. Pickering

“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

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries

— Stephen Hawking

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

There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're…

— Zach Anner

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

“What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by…

— Kim Edwards

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

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

— Barack Obama

Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best…

— Rick Hansen

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

— Robert Winston

You don't have to have a disability to be different.

— Kim Peek

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

— Dominique Wilkins

If you've got a disabilty you're normal, it's just something that's different.

— Ellie Simmonds

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

— Bob Dole

“The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude.”

— Chris Vonada

Being able to joke about my disability also gives me some control over it.

— Alex Brooker

“If you have a Disability, don't let people Dis your Ability.”

— Jeff