Top 58 Quotes About Handicaps
#1. Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.
Robert Genn
#2. The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.
John C. Maxwell
#3. Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.
Laura Hillenbrand
#4. Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.
Donald A. Wollheim
#5. Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
Helen Keller
#6. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
Vita Sackville-West
#7. If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
Henri Nouwen
#9. We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.
Robert M. Hensel
#10. Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement
Fethullah Gulen
#11. Hardships and handicaps can ... stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
Beatrice Wood
#12. Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel
#13. Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
Coco Chanel
#14. Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.
Sophia Loren
#15. Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
Bobby Nichols
#17. I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.
Jason Day
#18. Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
Stevie Wonder
#19. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
#20. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan
#21. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.
Edward Hoagland
#22. Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
Napoleon Hill
#23. If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. [On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.
Dervla Murphy
#25. It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.
Herbert Newton Casson
#26. It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
Benjamin Graham
#27. 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
#29. There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
Anil Kapoor
#30. You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
Audrey Hepburn
#31. Today God is bypassing men - not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!
Leonard Ravenhill
#32. We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.
Kelly Moran
#33. Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
#34. Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.
Temple Grandin
#35. The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
#36. Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Og Mandino
#37. Hitler's cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering various physical and mental handicaps.
Erik Larson
#38. The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
Erich Fromm
#39. Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#40. Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
#41. I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
Major Taylor
#42. People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#43. A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#44. We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.
William Arthur Ward
#48. Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.
Donna Leon
#49. Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
Russell M. Nelson
#50. We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.
Yahia Lababidi
#51. In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Upton Sinclair
#52. 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
#53. My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
Sammy Davis Jr.
#54. I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller
#55. I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
Jean Renoir
#56. Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
James Cash Penney
#58. Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
Daniel Lapin
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