Disability Quotes: Inspiring Words from Persons with Disabilities

World Disability Day : December 3 is observed as World Disabled Day every year to acknowledge the issues faced by persons with disabilities (PwD) around the world. World Disabled Day is known as “International Day of Persons with Disabilities”, the day aims to promote an awareness of disability issues and the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities.

Disability awareness quotes are sayings that speak to the adversity people with disabilities face in the modern world, as well as the potential for professional success these individuals possess. The purpose of these quotes is to promote awareness, equality, and empowerment for professionals with physical or mental conditions.

Inspirational disability quotes

• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. – Stephen Hawking
• Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido Qubein
• In life, just find something you love and make it your life. That is the only way to be successful. Love what you do. – Hannah Cockcroft
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius
• Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. – Stevie Wonder
• 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
• A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve
• Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason. ― Charles Dickens

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• Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. – Stella Young
• Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. – Helen Keller
• 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
• Everything is going to work out – there’s no other option. – Kari Miller
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude. — Scott Hamilton
• I don’t need easy. I just need possible. – Bethany Hamilton
• Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. — Martina Navratilova

• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. – Sharron Angle
• At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. – Frida Kahlo
• Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. – Muhammad Ali
• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Ralph Braun

Disability quotes from people with disabilities

• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. — Helen Keller
• 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
• However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope. — Stephen Hawking
• 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
• A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller

• 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
• 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
• 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

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Disability quotes about Life, Society, and Culture

• And for a very special group of people, we’ve provided their only job. I’m speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don’t want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one. — Carl Karcher
• 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
• The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

• 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
• People didn’t always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, ‘Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?’ — Major Owens
• Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. — Emma Thompson
• One of the most ignored disabilities on earth is allowing one’s thoughts to discourage one from taking advantage of one’s abilities in life. — Edmond Mbiaka
• 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

• 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
• My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible. — Stella Young
• Let’s stop “tolerating” or “accepting” difference as if we’re so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let’s celebrate difference because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different. — Kate Bornstein