Best 312 quotes in «disability quotes» category

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Disability is the inability to see ability.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

Disability can be no handicap.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

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

Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.

I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

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

Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.