Top 100 Handicap Quotes
#1. Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
Joan Caulfield
#2. Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
Daniel Lapin
#3. Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any queue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp.
Vladimir Nabokov
#5. While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Ray Kroc
#6. You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!
Vince McMahon
#7. Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
#8. I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Gustave Flaubert
#10. Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.
Napoleon Hill
#11. Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.
Erik Bundy
#12. All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#13. (both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)
David Mitchell
#14. It's a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.
Kobo Abe
#16. My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
Sammy Davis Jr.
#17. Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty
Harry Chapin
#18. I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough.
Anthony Powell
#19. But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Philip Gibbs
#20. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama's handicap is Joe Biden.
Jay Leno
#21. Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be.
Tamara L. Chilver
#22. A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.
Mary Church Terrell
#23. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#24. There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.
Fred Bear
#25. I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
Bob Hope
#26. This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#27. [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
Jim Butcher
#28. I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
Patricia Riggen
#29. A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
Philip Glass
#31. Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress
Steve Grand
#32. In a system in which cheating is the norm, following the rules amounts to a handicap.
Cathy O'Neil
#33. And now you, young lady, may have learned the greatest lessons of all." Dr. Fuddle cherished the tender moment, watching the light dance in Christina's eyes. "It is a lesson I had to learn, too, that no handicap is too great to prevent one's voice from being heard.
Warren L. Woodruff
#34. I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.
Gary Johnson
#35. Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.
Samael Aun Weor
#37. An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Richard Reeves
#38. You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
Gordie Howe
#39. When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
George McGovern
#40. Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
Jodi Picoult
#41. I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.
Nick Lowe
#43. Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.
Stuart Hill
#47. I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
Shia Labeouf
#48. Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.
Uzoma Nnadi
#49. Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
#50. Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.
Josephine Tey
#51. Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.
Gil Gerard
#52. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
Arthur Balfour
#53. An artist is like a handicap
he needs his art to carry himself.
Yarro Rai
#54. Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.
Tito Jackson
#55. My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.
Stanislaw Lem
#56. But like a high-strung racehorse who needs extra weight in her saddle pad, I like a handicap and relish the aesthetic challenge posed by the limitations of the ordinary.
Sally Mann
#57. Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Paul Chambers
#58. Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.
Connie Willis
#59. The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#60. What happened to me separates me from the normal world in a negative way. Like a handicap or disfiguring deformity, it's too horrible for some people to deal with, and it makes them uncomfortable whenever they're around me. ~Leigh Byrne, Call Me Tuesday
Leigh Byrne
#61. Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.
Henry Beard
#62. Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.
Vidkun Quisling
#63. Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.
Jean Vanier
#64. Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
Helen Keller
#65. Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.
Kingsley Amis
#66. I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran
#67. The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
Charles Francis Richter
#68. One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.
Scott Baio
#69. Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
Kapil Dev
#70. In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
Bertha Knight Landes
#71. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.
H.L. Mencken
#72. As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Carter G. Woodson
#74. Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life. I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet.
Jessica Cox
#76. We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
Seth Godin
#77. There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
#78. Playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America's obvious and enduring math handicap. For too long, what American
Amanda Ripley
#79. The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!
Lani Deauville
Bette Lee Crosby
#80. Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.
Denis Leary
#81. Practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#82. To handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.
Carter G. Woodson
#83. I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
Jack Redmond
#84. That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.
Hugo Black
#85. I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.
Jimmy Carter
#86. I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing ... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.
Paul Michael Glaser
#87. The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Marlee Matlin
#88. Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap
Jacques Barzun
#89. Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.
Ray Romano
#90. This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Michael Medved
#91. People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien Leigh
#92. You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
Jean Nidetch
#94. I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
Dennis Lehane
#95. Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
Orison Swett Marden
#96. My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.
Rick Hansen
#97. My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#98. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.
George Packer
#99. I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.
Marion Cotillard
#100. The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg
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