Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Handicap. 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 Handicap Quotes And Sayings by 82 Authors including Montel Williams,Erik Weihenmayer,Napoleon Bonaparte,Patricia Riggen,Glenn Beck for you to enjoy and share.
I'm not disabled, I'm Differently Able! -- Montel Williams
Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities -- Erik Weihenmayer
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English. -- Patricia Riggen
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 play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75. -- Tom Lehman
Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us -- Jean Vanier
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
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. -- Helen Keller
Know me for my abilities, not my disability. -- Robert M. Hensel
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. -- Marlee Matlin
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
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
A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury. -- Christopher Paolini
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
Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage -- Oscar Pistorius
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. -- Jessa Gamble
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind -- Stephen Cosgrove
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
The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude. -- Chris Vonada
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
It is better to be handicapped in both arms and legs than to be crippled in the mind. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. -- Helen Keller
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled. -- Giles Duley
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
We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings. -- William Arthur Ward
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy -- Abraham Maslow
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. -- Gustave Flaubert
I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker. -- Heather Whitestone
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
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
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. -- Jim Abbott
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
2Now a man who was lame from birth -- Anonymous
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. -- Shirley Chisholm
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
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. -- Josephine Tey
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment. -- Maysoon Zayid
Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality -- Paul Isaacs
Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. -- Tito Jackson
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
One person's disability is another person's culture." As -- Jodi Picoult
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more. -- Robert M. Hensel
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. -- Terry Pratchett
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
A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex. -- Mary Church Terrell
You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else. -- Audrey Hepburn
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. -- Solange Nicole
Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off. -- Jodi Picoult
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. -- Robert M. Hensel
People with disabilities are still whole. They're just whole differently. -- Leta Blake
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do. -- Karni Liddell
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
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
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
Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability. -- Marla Runyan
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
Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed. -- Marc David O'brien
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs. -- Thomas M. Disch
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
Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. -- Ray Romano
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. -- George Mcgovern
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
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
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have. -- Oscar Pistorius
For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. -- Nick Vujicic
The only place a man can be truly handicapped is in his mind, and that a man who can conquer his own mind has got the world at his feet. -- Richard Price
A handicap parking permit is not a reward for a lifetime of poor eating habits ... -- T. Rafael Cimino
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
My handicap will be a weapon of seduction? Do you really think so? -- Mathias Malzieu
Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces. -- Denis Leary
In a system in which cheating is the norm, following the rules amounts to a handicap. -- Cathy O'neil
promise you that for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. God -- Nick Vujicic
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. -- Stella Young
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
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
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness ... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities. -- 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
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. -- Jean Driscoll
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. -- Leslie Fiedler
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
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
Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm! -- Tennessee Williams
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. -- Stella Young
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
Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. -- Stuart Hill
The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people. -- Jose Alaniz
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world -- Viktoria Modesta
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience. -- James I. Charlton
I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life. -- Zach Braff
My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world. -- The Arbinger Institute
I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. -- Alistair Cooke
..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within the
employer.
..don't look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes. -- Richard N. Bolles
People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them. -- Donna Kirk
