Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Disabled. 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 Disabled Quotes And Sayings by 81 Authors including Nick Vujicic,Rick Hansen,Erik Weihenmayer,Anthony Robbins,Jean Vanier for you to enjoy and share.
promise you that for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. God -- Nick Vujicic
My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me. -- Rick Hansen
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities -- Erik Weihenmayer
Or maybe in school you didn't learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had a different learning strategy, you may have decided that you were "learning-disabled. -- Anthony Robbins
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us -- Jean Vanier
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. -- Stella Young
Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them. -- Wayne W. Dyer
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
It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled. -- Aimee Mullins
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
I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished. -- Francine Prose
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands. -- Bess Truman
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
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences. -- Tanya Masse
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
Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work. -- Stella Young
What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled. -- Rachel Gibson
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
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world -- Viktoria Modesta
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. -- Robert M. Hensel
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'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. -- Stella Young
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken. -- George Herbert
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
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment. -- Maysoon Zayid
I can't talk. I can't walk. I can't feed myself or take myself to the bathroom. Big bummer. -- Sharon M. Draper
Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. -- Sarvesh Jain
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience. -- James I. Charlton
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. -- Doris Lessing
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
[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types:
I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis. -- Chris Cleave
In English sometimes they call a mentally disabled person a retard, and there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a human being with this quality of latency or absence, like a clock left behind in an empty room, a page someone forgot to rip out of a calendar, the walking embodiment of jet lag. -- Jean-Christophe Valtat
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
The lack of social support and sympathy is an additional trial: disabled, but with the nature of her disability not clear - she is not, after all, manifestly blind or paralysed, manifestly anything - she tends to be treated as a phoney or a fool. -- Oliver Sacks
We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles -- Amy Purdy
There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head -- Bethany Hamilton
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
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. -- Martina Navratilova
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
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
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
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.' -- Aimee Mullins
We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do. -- Marlee Matlin
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being. -- Robert M. Hensel
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
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. -- David Guterson
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. -- Brad Cohen
You're blocking. -- Martha N. Beck
America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential. -- William J. Clinton
out. May propped the -- Nancy Cavin Pitts
Your disability is your opportunity. -- Kurt Hahn
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
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy -- Abraham Maslow
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. -- Stanton Delaplane
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word. -- Laura Linney
I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker. -- Heather Whitestone
I'm fairly accessible. -- Jeb Bush
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities. -- Marva Collins
Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do. -- Oscar Pistorius
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
Being enabled, like being loved, is one of the marvels of the world's benevolence. It is to be given wings. -- Renee Askins
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. -- Marlee Matlin
My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything. -- Sally Brampton
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. -- Christopher
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind -- Stephen Cosgrove
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. -- Voltaire
My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world. -- The Arbinger Institute
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count. -- Chris Burke
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
What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who -- Richard Ford
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not. -- Stella Young
The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude. -- Chris Vonada
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
2Now a man who was lame from birth -- Anonymous
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
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
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
Discombobulated. -- Dannika Dark
The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!
Lani Deauville -- Bette Lee Crosby
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. 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. -- Aimee Mullins
Facility to address the weakness in his left side. He cannot raise his left hand to his face, nor can he walk without a cane. Ten days after surgery, he is discharged and taken home. He is instructed to return to the rehab facility three times -- John Grisham
There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious. -- Frederick Lenz
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. -- Dante Alighieri
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well. -- Stephen Hawking
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them. -- Robert M. Hensel
Forget what you know about disability. -- Viktoria Modesta
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. -- Christopher Hitchens
Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers. -- Stella Young
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. -- Jesse Ventura
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate -- Nick Hornby
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
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. -- Stella Young
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
My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities. -- Robert M. Hensel
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons. -- Christopher Reeve
I'm broken, and no one can fix it. -- Jennifer Niven
I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue. -- Angel Cabrera
Say what you want about the deaf ... -- Jimmy Carr
