Disability Quotes

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

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.

My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.

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

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

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

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

I don't have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

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.

Forget what you know about disability.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

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

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

Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Disability can be no handicap.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

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

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

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

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

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

Limitations only go so far.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

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.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

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

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

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.