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Below is a list of some of the best, notable, inspiring, and positive quotes about disability that would motivate and remind you that you are unique, special, and loved no matter what your current situation is.
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67+ Strong & Inspiring Quotes About Disability
1. “Your disability is your opportunity.” – Kurt Hahn
2. “Disability is not inability.” – Proverb
3. “It’s not our disabilities, It’s our abilities that count.” – Chris Burke
4. “Disability is the inability to see ability.” – Vikas Khanna
5. “Disability need not be an obstacle to success.” – Stephen Hawking
6. “The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.” – Warwick Davis
7. “People with disabilities are capable and powerful.” – Proverb
8. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
9. “A lot of disabilities are invisible. Your reaction to them isn’t.” – Unknown
10. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
11. “A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.” – Robert M. Hensel
12. “Don’t be ashamed of your story it will inspire others.” – Unknown
13. “The worst thing about a disability is that people see it before they see you.” – Easter Seals
14. “My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.” – Unknown
15. “I choose not to place “dis” in my ability.” – Robert M Hensel
16. “Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.” – Morgan Freeman
17. “Every person with a disability is an individual.” – Itzhak Perlman
18. “My attitude is based on how you treat me.” – Unknown
19. “The disability is not the problem. The accessibility is the problem.” – Mohamed Jemni
20. “Don’t judge a disability only by its visibility.” – Unknown
21. “I don’t believe in disabilities, I believe inability.” – Bill Austin
22. “My ability is greater than my disability.” – Nikki Rowe
23. “I don’t have a disability, I have a different ability.” – Robert M Hensel
24. “Autism is not a disability, It’s a different ability.” – Stuart Duncan
25. “Just because I’m disabled. It doesn’t mean you can push me around.” – Unknown
26. “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you from doing well and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.” – Stephen Hawking
27. “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needly and the handicapped.” – Hubert Humphrey
28. “There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.” – Pablo Picasso
29. “The greatest disability is our inability to accept and respect differences.” – Tanya S. Masse
30. “Obviously, Because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world from the Antarctic to zero gravity.” – Stephen Hawking
31. “When you have a disability, Knowing you are not defined by It is the sweetest feeling.” – Anne Strike
32. “Never ignore somebody with a disability, You don’t realize how much they can inspire you.” – Proverb
33. “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you. Let it destroy you, Or You can let it strengthen you.” – Unknown
34. “A disability doesn’t have to be a social barrier. Good etiquette begins with inclusion, not exclusion.” – Robert M. Hensel
35. “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
36. “I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people to 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
37. “When you feel like giving up your dream, Force yourself to work another day, another week, A year. You’ll be amazed at what happens when you don’t give up.” – Nick Vujicic
38. “I wish for a world that views disability, mental or physical, not as a hindrance but as unique attributes that can be seen as powerful assets if given the right opportunities.” – Oliver Sacks
39. “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
40. “The world takes my disability far too seriously frankly, I’ll not stand for it.” – Proverb
41. “We need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability.” – Stevie Wonder
42. “The only special need that I have is to be loved and accepted just the way I am.” – Unknown
43. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go;Â they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
44. “Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy successful lives.” – Anne Ford
45. “What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “Pain is pain. The broken is broken. Fear is the biggest disability of all. And will paralyze you more than you being in a wheelchair.” – Nick Vujicic
47. “I stand for disability rights accessibility, Safety. Community acceptance independent living and quality of life full and active participation in society equal access to education and employment.” – Proverb
48. “Although the world is full of suffering, It is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
49. “Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.” – Martina Navratilova
50. “Every child is a different kind of flower and all together, Make this world a beautiful garden.” – Proverb
51. “The severity of one’s disability does not determine their level of potential. The greatest barriers that persons with disabilities have to overcome are not steps or curbs, It’s expectations.” – Karen Clay
52. “It takes an open-minded individual to look beyond disability, and see that ability has so much more to offer than the limitations society tries to place upon them.” – Robert M Hensel
53. “Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.” – Emma Thompson
54. “Please understand I have a disability, not a disease. You can’t catch it. I may walk, talk, and move differently than you do, but on the inside, I’m not so different.” – Proverb
55. “It was an ability that mattered, not a disability, which is a word I’m not crazy about using.” – Marlee Matlin
56. “Abled does not mean enabled. Disabled does not mean less abled.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
57. “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
58. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
59. “I prefer people to see me as on Ivorian and as a patriot.” – Didier Drogba
60. “He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted which meant he could control how he was perceived.” – Sheryl Sandberg
61. “My disability will always be a piece of me, but if its the only part of me recognize than you’ve only scratched the surface of who I am.” – Unknown
62. “No disability or dictionary out there is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.” – Robert M. Hensel
63. “Good took my disability, and turned into this ability.” – Robert M Hensel
64. “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
65. “Disability is often frame, In medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.” – Stella Young
66. “Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.” – Stella Young
67. “Never ignore somebody with a disability, You don’t realize how much they can inspire you.” – Proverb
68. “There is no greater disability in society than in the ability to see a person as more.” – Robert M Hensel