Aimee Mullins Quotes

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• Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as…
• Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you…
• There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not…
• If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
• Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a…
• Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
• Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
• It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare…
• If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all…
• The only true disability is a crushed spirit
• Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
• Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and…
• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't…
• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with…
• For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was…
• I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could…
• A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
• Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
• Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
• I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I…

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