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Disability Quotes

Voices of Strength and Hope

These words from people with disabilities and advocates remind us that true strength has no limits.

Stephen Hawking

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.

Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Nick Vujicic

I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs

Robert M. Hense

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

Judith Heumann

Equality is not about treating everyone the same. It’s about fairness

Warwick Davis

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.”

Martina Navratilova

Former Tennis Player

“There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more.”

Robert M. Hensel

Activist

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

Christopher Reeve

Superman

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

Francis of Assisi

“When you hear the word ‘disabled,’ people immediately think about people who can’t walk or talk… Now, I take nothing for granted.”

Teri Garr

American actress

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

Jimmy Dean

When you accept yourself the way you are, the world recognizes you; it starts from within…. This life is a test and trials and tests are not supposed to be easy.

Muniba Mazari

Activist

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