“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
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.” -Martina Navratilova
“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
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -Francis of Assisi
“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
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” –Christopher Reeve
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” –Muhammad Ali
“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
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” –Helen Keller
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” –Jimmy Dean
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” –Kevyn Aucoin
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” –Walt Whitman
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ―Helen Keller
“I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn’t let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness – I want to turn my disability into ability.” ―Susan Boyle
“….What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were super–abled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.” ― Joey Reiman
“I choose not to place ‘DIS’, in my ability.” ― Robert M. Hensel
“Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.”― Sandy Fussell, Shaolin Tiger
“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.” ― Unknown
“Abled does not mean enabled. Disabled does not mean less abled.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.” ― Leif Gregersen, Through The Withering Storm
“I do not have a disability, I have a gift! Others may see it as a disability, but I see it as a challenge. This challenge is a gift because I have to become stronger to get around it, and smarter to figure out how to use it; others should be so lucky.” ― Shane E. Bryan
“Some would look at Emily’s life and think that a child born with Down’s syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily’s life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.” ― Matt Patterson
“Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.” ― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone
“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, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash
“Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that’s not true . . . Having a disability doesn’t stop me from doing anything.” ― Benjamin Snow, Grade 8, in his essay “Attitudes About People with Disabilities”
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie Wonder
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
“It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn’t have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.” ― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
“There is only one way to look at things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.” ~ Pablo Picasso
“[by] this most sorrowful way I was compelled to tread, I learned respect and reverence for every human mind. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. None is to be considered less, as a human being, than any other, and each must be given his place and a safety in the world. I might never have learned this in any other way. I might’ve gone on in the arrogance of my own intolerance for those less able than myself. My child taught me humanity.” ~Pearl S. Buck, The Child Who Never Grew, 2nd edition
“There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.” – Robert M. Hensel
“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.” – Jessa Gamble
“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
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” –Stephen Hawking
The problem is not the person’s disability…The problem is society’s view of the person’s abilities. ~ Unknown
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“The worst thing about a disability is that people see it before they see you.” – Easter Seals
“It’s not our disabilities, it’s our abilities that count.” – Chris Burke
“Inclusion elevates all.” – Elaine Hall
“There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.” – Sharon Angle
“You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.” – Christopher Reeves
“Because I’m able to bring my all to work, I’m able to give my all at work.” – Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy Kathy Martinez
“People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities which they choose to live.” –Barack Obama
“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will ‘turn the necessity to glorious gain.” – C.S. Lewis
“Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.” –Emma Thompson
“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
“I don’t have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.” –Robert M. Hensel
“Know me for my abilities, not my disability.” –Robert M. Hensel
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“I choose not to place “DIS”, in my ability.” –Robert M. Hensel
“I am mentally Bifocal.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” –Stevie Wonder
““Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.” –Stevie Wonder
“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one’s best.” –Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that’s not true . . . Having a disability doesn’t stop me from doing anything.” –Benjamin Snow, Grade 8, Woodland Park, Colorado, in his essay “Attitudes About People with Disabilities”
“To sit there and tell anybody they can’t do something because of a disability, I think that’s ridiculous.” –Pat McDonald, who uses a wheelchair and has a goal of playing on the PGA Tour
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“I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn’t let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness – I want to turn my disability into ability.” ~Susan Boyle
Use the skills that I have got.
Do not focus on what I have not.
Of course, I am aware of my limitation.
Yet, I am a part of God’s wonderful creation.
William E. Lightbourne
“The message I’ll share…is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.”
— Clay Aiken
“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.”
— William J. Brennan, Jr.
“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
“Limitations only go so far.”
— Robert M. Hensel
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“The severity of one’s disability does not determine their level of potential. the greatest barriers that persons with disabilities have to over come are not steps or curbs, it’s expectations.” ~ Karen Clay
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.”– Robert M Hensel
“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”– Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor’s monuments and statues are when a young person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.” – Bill Shorten
“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
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“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.” –Martina Navratilova
“The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves, whilst making them work together to make a better world. It’s called Autism – and I can’t see anything wrong with it, can you? Boy I’m glad I also have this disability!”– Patrick Jasper Lee
“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 de Seversky
“If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.“– Susan Wendell
“When you have a disability, knowing that you are not defined by it is the sweetest feeling.”– Anne Wafula Strike
“The battle to find a workplace that’s wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who’s going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.” – Stella Young
“We think we know what it’s all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don’t expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.” – Stella Young
“Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized.”– AJ Withers
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“The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.” – Warwick Davis
Consider the following four dead-end kids. One was spanked by his teachers for bad grades and a poor attitude. He dropped out of school at 16. Another failed remedial English and came perilously close to flunking out of college. The third feared he’d never make it through school – and might not have without a tutor. The last finally learned to read in third grade, devouring Marvel comics, whose pictures provided clues to help him untangle the words – These four losers are, respectively, Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, John Chambers, and David Boies.
“Whenever something goes wrong or you find yourself at a disadvantage, often the best way to handle it is to turn a negative into a positive.” –Sir Richard Branson
“Nobody’s good in everything. Advantages and disadvantages come in many forms“ – Charles Schwab
“It would surprise you how many government and business leaders live with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness and maybe it is…Because of my weakness I’ve learned other ways to accomplish the same goal with faster speed.” -John Chambers
“Reading has nothing to do with intelligence. It’s just one way of getting information. The important thing is how a person processes that information, the kind of person we are, the contributions we make, and the kind of utility we have for society.” –David Boies
“Life is not a timed examination, there are very few times in life when what really matters is whether you can do something in 50 minutes, as opposed to 75. What matters is how well you’re able to do it.” –David Boies
“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.” – Helen Keller
“Enable the Disabled; Translate Disability into Ability; Capability, a winning Opportunity-Indeed a Reality” – Dr Veena Kumari
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.” – Max Lerner
“See the person, not the label.” – Dr. Temple Grandin
“The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.” – Dr. Temple Grandin
“It is so important to enable people to use their Abilities and TALENTS to support themselves.” – Dr. Temple Grandin
“We all have a disability of some kind; all are lacking in one way or another. Saul has an injury to his leg. What if his personality was deformed? How much worse if his soul was lame? Preachers or teachers look for the good in all of us. (Bless them for doing so.) I don’t see a cripple. I haven’t met anyone yet who isn’t handicapped in some way. So what’s the big deal? Don’t hide your deformity. Wear it like a Purple Heart.” – Georgiann Baldino
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“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
“Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.” – Jacob Hacker
“One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.” – Douglas Adams
“It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I’m not crazy about using.” –Marlee Matlin
“I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.” – Helen Keller
“Having no expectations shows pity, which shows sadness, sorrow & regret. A child with a disability needs support. Stand behind him, champion and back him! Believe in him and have expectations! They inspire hope, excitement, eagerness and success! Which would you want others to give you?” – Joan Scanlon-Dise
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“Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can’t feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren’t able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. “ – Fred Rogers
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” – Michael J. Fox
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking your potential.”— By Winston Churchill
“People with disabilities have abilities too and this is what this course is all about, making sure that those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.” — By Mary McAleese
“It is our culture that disables. When one is disabled, the problem is not really that they have impairments and social skill deficits. The issue at stake is that they live in an ‘ableist’ culture that rarely affords them the space or opportunity to make their unique contribution to society and does not lift up the value of choosing them as friends.” [or employees] – Ben Conner…Amplifying Our Witness (2012)
“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” – Albert Einstein
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I learn. Involve me and I remember.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.” ~Martin Luther King, jr.
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