Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Disabilities. 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 Disabilities Quotes And Sayings by 72 Authors including Neil Marcus,Jessa Gamble,Nikki Rowe,Robert M. Hensel,Emma Thompson for you to enjoy and share.
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
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. -- Jessa Gamble
My ability is greater than my disability. -- Nikki Rowe
Know me for my abilities, not my disability. -- Robert M. Hensel
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. -- Emma Thompson
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
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
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
I've come to believe that the word 'disabled' is a misnomer. 'Disabled' implies that you are broken beyond use. No longer functional. I'm quite abled. -- Ilona Andrews
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. -- Mark Haddon
For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. -- Nick Vujicic
Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us. -- Alasdair Gray
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world -- Viktoria Modesta
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag. -- William Greider
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people. -- Stella Young
Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled. -- Giles Duley
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
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
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. -- Stella Young
My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me. -- Rick Hansen
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
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. -- Martina Navratilova
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
Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life. I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet. -- Jessica Cox
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. -- Stella Young
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. -- Jim Abbott
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind. -- Amy Purdy
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort. -- Stella Young
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap. -- Ludwig Van Beethoven
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. -- Solange Nicole
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us. -- Robert M. Hensel
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
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 worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!
Lani Deauville -- Bette Lee Crosby
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
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
I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need. -- Nick Vujicic
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
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. -- Napoleon Hill
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands. -- Bess Truman
If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it. -- T.c. Slonaker
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'? -- Aimee Mullins
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. -- Jeanne Phillips
When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally. -- Yvonne Pierre
Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise. -- Susannah Charleson
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations. -- Itzhak Perlman
Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work. -- Stella Young
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect, -- Tim Berners-Lee
Disability need not be an obstacle to success. -- Stephen Hawking
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different. -- Daniel Tammet
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. -- Marlee Matlin
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
One person's disability is another person's culture." As -- Jodi Picoult
We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy. -- Yahia Lababidi
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
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf. -- Glenn Beck
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
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. -- Stephen Hawking
I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives. -- Arthur Bradford
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy -- Abraham Maslow
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
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. -- Stella Young
Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities. -- Marlee Matlin
Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though. -- Tom Cunningham
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. -- Stella Young
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone. -- Henri Nouwen
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. -- Stella Young
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
You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you. -- Stephen Hawking
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
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone. -- Aimee Mullins
People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them. -- Donna Kirk
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 don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. -- Natalie Du Toit
Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage. -- Oscar Pistorius
Forget what you know about disability. -- Viktoria Modesta
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part. -- Judy Woodruff
You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless. -- Lisa Bevere
The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude. -- Chris Vonada
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. -- Simi Linton
It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues. -- Jared Polis
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. -- Stella Young
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable. -- Stella Young
Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage -- Oscar Pistorius
I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker. -- Heather Whitestone
Working with special needs children is hard. -- Laura Linney
I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you. -- Louise Sauvage
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't. -- Jim Abbott
Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs. -- Nick Vujicic
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. -- C.s. Lewis
It is better to be handicapped in both arms and legs than to be crippled in the mind. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?" -- Harold S. Kushner
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience. -- Aya Kito
Say what you want about the deaf ... -- Jimmy Carr
