Disability Quotations | Page 2

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

There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

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.

We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

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

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.

The majority of these parents may have houses but they had the houses before they had kids. When somebody from Disability Affairs goes to our home, they think that we are too rich,

The irony is that while most of us are optimistic about our futures, the reality is clear that accident and disability are more likely to impact us than we care to acknowledge. Clearly workers with employment disability benefits have an edge, and those that plan for their own individual needs are also ahead of the game.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

The diversion of Social Security revenues to private investment accounts would shift much of the risks of old-age back to low-income seniors, and pose very serious challenges to families who depend on social security's survivor and disability insurance benefits.

The Conference is a forum for providing important veterans benefit information. The 2004 Conference resulted in women veterans receiving thousands of dollars in disability compensation and other benefits.

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.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

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

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

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?

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

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

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

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

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

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,

Disability is the inability to see ability.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.