Best 312 quotes in «disability quotes» category

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

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.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

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

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

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 unconscious is the ultimate disability.

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

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

Disability can be no handicap.

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?

Disability is the inability to see ability.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

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

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.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

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.

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.

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

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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