Disability Quotes

304 Disability quotes by 216 unique authors

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. — Douglas Adams
I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won — Robert M. Hensel
In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive. — Jean Driscoll
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York… — Terry Fox
The only disability in life is having a bad attitude — Oscar Pistorius
A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the… — Andrea Bocelli
The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities… — Valerie Jarrett
The only true disability is a crushed spirit — Aimee Mullins
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't. — Jim Abbott
Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into… — Nelson Mandela
Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life. — Jaggi Vasudev
Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs. — Nick Vujicic
Your disability is your opportunity. — Kurt Hahn
Disability need not be an obstacle to success. — Stephen Hawking
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries — Stephen Hawking
This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them… — Milos Raonic
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. — Jessa Gamble
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward. — Viktoria Modesta
Forget what you know about disability. — Viktoria Modesta
Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not… — Julia Serano
I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes — Oscar Pistorius
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. — Jean Driscoll
The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities. — Jared Polis
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer.… — Paul A. Offit
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t… — Stella Young

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