Quotes about Disability
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
Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.
- Nick Vujicic
He makes the basic point that it is not so much the disability one suffers from that matters but one's attitude to it. The man who says: I will conquer this illness & live a happy life, is already halfway through to victory.
- Nelson Mandela
no man who has a broken foot or hand,
- Leviticus 21:19
and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
- Luke 13:11
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
- JM Coetzee
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
- Victor Hugo
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
- Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
- Stephen Hawking
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.
- Stephen Hawking
I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.
- Stephen Hawking
I have had a full and satisfying life. I believe that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn't precent them from doing and not regret those they can't do.
- Stephen Hawking