1. I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn’t think I could do.-David A. Paterson
2. Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.-Charles Dickens
3. One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.-Douglas Adams
4. My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.-Robert M. Hensel
5. My ability is greater than my disability.-Nikki Rowe
6. 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
7. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.-Helen Keller
8. 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
9. 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
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10. Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.-Stella Young
11. There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.-Sharron Angle
12. 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
13. 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
14. Every person with a disability is an individual.-Itzhak Perlman
15. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.-Albert Einstein
16. The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.-Warwick Davis
17. Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.-Lawrence Bixby
18. I have not been handicapped by my condition. I am physically challenged and differently able.-Janet Barnes
19. Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI.-Sarah Todd Hammer
20. If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.-Margaret Meade
21. Enable the disabled; Translate disability into ability; Capability, a winning opportunity indeed a reality.-Dr. Veena Kumari
22. The strong, ferocious wind just made the chill worse, and as it blew around me, electric bursts of pain shot through my body.-Jennifer Starzec
23. 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
24. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body.-Sloane Crosley
25. Know me for my abilities, not my disability.-Robert M. Hensel
26. Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.-Emma Thompson
27. Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.-Sandy Fussell
28. 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
29. 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