Disability Quotes

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

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

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.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

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

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.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

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

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

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

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

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

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

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

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

I want people to feel inspired to reach out and be inclusive and supportive of others in their community who might be facing any kind of challenge, whether it is a health issue or a disability.

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

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

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

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

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

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

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.

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

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.

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.

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

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

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

I am disabled but I'm not my disability. Disability is just a little piece of me but it is not my whole personality