The only true disability is a crushed spirit — Aimee Mullins
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. — Emma Thompson
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
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. — Scott Hamilton
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. — Arthur Smith
The only disability in life is having a bad attitude — Oscar Pistorius
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. — Marlee Matlin
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have. — Oscar Pistorius
You learn to limp if you live with cripples — Greek Proverbs
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up — Charles Krauthammer
Short Wheelchair Quotes
Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that. — Steve Gleason
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! — Jerry Lewis
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids. — Milton Jones
By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing. — Sharon M. Draper
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. — Annette Funicello
If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair. — Ricky Ponting
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. — Dorothy Parker
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. — Stephen Hawking
I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches. — RJ Mitte
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair. — Allen Steck
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Inspirational Wheelchair Quotes
If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair. — Mark Zupan
Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. — Keith Richards
In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive. — Jean Driscoll
We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40. — Drew Brees
A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair? — Henny Youngman
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. — Linda Blair
I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs. — Dennis Wilson
Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair. — Nick Vujicic
The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Joel Osteen
Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention. — Judith Martin
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know. — Alain Prost
I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride. — Elizabeth Taylor
Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem. — Itzhak Perlman
Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait. — Augusten Burroughs
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously. — Michael Weatherly
I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out! — Dolly Parton
My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since. — Hugh Laurie
The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair. — Neil Tennant
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it! — Itzhak Perlman
As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance. — Wolfgang Schauble
Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs. — Fulton J. Sheen
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening. — Bailey White
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. — Stephen Hawking
You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too. — Scott Adams
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth. — Jim Beaver
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant. — Roger Tory Peterson
You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise. — Jack LaLanne
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him. — Na Hae Ryeong
I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on. — Dolly Parton
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk. — Evelyn Glennie
When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving. — Ben Sollee
It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid. — R. J. Palacio
Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love. — Ram Dass
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly. — Felix Baumgartner
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around. — Tom Robbins
Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones. — P.W. Singer
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