77 Physically Disabled Quotes
Following is our list of physically disabled quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about people with disabilities.
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Famous Physically Disabled Quotes
Disability is the inability to see ability. — Vikas Khanna
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. — Emma Thompson
The only true disability is a crushed spirit — Aimee Mullins
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. — Martina Navratilova
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
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. — Bill Toomey
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have. — Oscar Pistorius
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
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
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
The only disability in life is having a bad attitude — Oscar Pistorius
I've crippled more people than polio. — The Undertaker
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
We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles — Amy Purdy
Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability. — Marla Runyan
Short Physically Disabled Quotes
- The only disability in life is a bad attitude. — Scott Hamilton
- Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much. — Joni Eareckson Tada
- 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
- I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind. — Jason Becker
- My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles. — Andrew Johnson
- Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of — Morgan Freeman
- I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him. — Joni Eareckson Tada
- Deaf people can do anything, except hear. — Marlee Matlin
- Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. — Stella Young
Physically Disabled Image Quotes
Disability Quotes
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. — William Arthur Ward
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society. — Theodore Kaczynski
I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us — Jean Vanier
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation. — Hugh Herr
There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again. — John Hope Bryant
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. — Helen Keller
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
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. — Tim Berners-Lee
People With Disabilities Quotes
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' — Major Owens
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. — John Lynch
I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person. — Patrick Henry Hughes
I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won — Robert M. Hensel
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
Some people sign up for the goal, but don’t sign up for the discomfort that comes along with the goal. — Russell Brunson
I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities. — Stevie Wonder
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking
You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap. — Glenn Hoddle
There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same. — Zach Anner
People Writing About Physically Disabled
More Physically Disabled Quotes
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities. — Paul Levinson
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well. — Stephen Hawking
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights. — William Lyon Phelps
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives. — Lester Roloff
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. — Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful. — Anne Rice
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. — Daniel H. Wilson
Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. — Stephen Hawking
I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt. — Stephen Hawking
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine! — Helen Keller
Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights. — Carson Kressley
I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't. — William J. Clinton
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. — Caroline Myss
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
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. — Stephen Hawking
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged. — Zach Anner
There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in other cases any practical hope - of marriage. The circumstance of being currently unable to marry, while tragic, is not unique. — Dallin H. Oaks
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate. — Ian McEwan
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
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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 felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell. — Nancy Mairs
I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better. — Nick Vujicic
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone. — Vinton Cerf
Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us. — Neal Boortz
I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts. — Lucy Liu
I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily. — Alexander P. de Seversky
Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled. — Simone Elkeles
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