Handicaps Quotes

126 quotes by 113 authors

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. — Pearl S. Buck
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. — Josephine Tey
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people. — Russell M. Nelson
Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail… — Bill Bailey
I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF… — Marion Cotillard
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap! — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future. — Anil Kapoor
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black. — Shirley Chisholm
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege… — Jacques Barzun
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as… — Napoleon Hill
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. — Helen Keller
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has… — Raniero Cantalamessa
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Marie Pitt
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only… — Paul Chambers
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model… — Margaret Mead
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing… — Betty Friedan
Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement — Fethullah Gulen
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. — Bertha Knight Landes
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. — Jean Renoir

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