Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Able Bodied. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Able Bodied Quotes And Sayings by 79 Authors including Stella Young,Thomas Perez,Marc David O'brien,Natalie Du Toit,Stephen Hawking for you to enjoy and share.
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. -- Stella Young
Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity. -- Thomas Perez
Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed. -- Marc David O'brien
My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard. -- Natalie Du Toit
You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you. -- Stephen Hawking
Your disability is your opportunity. -- Kurt Hahn
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. -- Stella Young
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. -- Stella Young
People with disabilities are still whole. They're just whole differently. -- Leta Blake
My ability is greater than my disability. -- Nikki Rowe
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind -- Stephen Cosgrove
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. -- Nancy Mairs
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do. -- Richard Masur
I wanted to share the realities of living with a disability since birth. My book is my attempt to promote increased inclusion and greater understanding of individual abilities -- Stephanie Torreno
Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse. -- Steve Southerland
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different. -- Daniel Tammet
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life. -- Helen Keller
The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do. -- Stella Young
I am already socially disabled; I don't need to be mentally disabled on top of that. -- Leila Sales
I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge. -- Joyce Banda
I'm fairly accessible. -- Jeb Bush
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true. -- Mary Mcaleese
I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it. -- Aimee Mullins
Disability is the inability to see ability. -- Vikas Khanna
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. -- Marlee Matlin
Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities. -- Marlee Matlin
In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less. -- Stella Young
There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left. -- Thomas Szasz
In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions. -- Lee Woodruff
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. -- Viktoria Modesta
The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity. -- Ellen Samuels
The only true disability is a crushed spirit -- Aimee Mullins
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. -- Julia Ward Howe
Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future. -- Nelson Mandela
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses. -- Stella Young
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. -- Tom Coburn
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. -- Donald Norman
Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity' ... Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live. -- Neil Marcus
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. -- Stella Young
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. -- Jessa Gamble
I do not have a disability, I have a gift! Others may see it as a disability, but I see it as a challenge. This challenge is a gift because I have to become stronger to get around it, and smarter to figure out how to use it; others should be so lucky. -- Shane E. Bryan
If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. -- Major Taylor
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful. -- Aimee Mullins
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies. -- Stella Young
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability. -- Lori Borgman
It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities. -- Lauren Potter
Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile. -- Geoffrey Hill
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What does disabled mean anyhow? -- Anne Eliot
Accessibility is a concept that can also be applied to any condition - physical, mental, or cognitive - that prevents equivalent use of a product or service. -- Kel Smith
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect, -- Tim Berners-Lee
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. -- Marlee Matlin
The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders. -- Natalie Du Toit
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. -- Jim Davis
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity ... All they need is financial capital. -- Muhammad Yunus
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons. -- Christopher Reeve
Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage. -- Oscar Pistorius
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have. -- Rory Kinnear
They are able who think they are able. -- Virgil
All Superheroes are differently abled.
All differently abled are Superheroes. -- Mohith Agadi
You don't have to have a disability to be different. -- Kim Peek
When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter. -- Teri Garr
promise you that for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. God -- Nick Vujicic
Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others. -- Stevie Wonder
Abled does not mean enabled.
Disabled does not mean less abled. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Forget what you know about disability. -- Viktoria Modesta
We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability. -- Michel Sidibe
Every human being in the human form has limitations. -- Eckhart Tolle
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience. -- James I. Charlton
The most able seems clumsy. -- Laozi
They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen. -- Mari Mancusi
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. -- Jim Abbott
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!!! -- Robert M. Hensel
A disability that is not apparent in the person's appearance is no less intrusive, no less painful, no less disturbing than one that can be spotted across the room. And, yet, many people fail to respect the tremendous impact that the invisible disability has on the human enduring it. -- Sahar Abdulaziz
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. -- Chaka Fattah
We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities. -- Carl Karcher
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled. -- Aimee Mullins
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. -- Evelyn Glennie
We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will. -- Bill Shorten
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that. -- Stella Young
Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion. -- Stella Young
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more. -- Robert M. Hensel
There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking. -- Major Owens
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport. -- Mark Zupan
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation. -- Tony Judt
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought. -- Stella Young
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands. -- Bess Truman
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -- Scott Hamilton
Say what you want about the deaf ... -- Jimmy Carr
Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name. -- Dejan Stojanovic
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. -- Aimee Mullins
I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you. -- Robert M. Hensel
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. -- Bella Abzug
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. -- Susan Hampshire
I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all. -- Aimee Mullins
I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing. -- Joshua Prager
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. -- Laura San Giacomo
