Quotes About Physically Disabled

#1. If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.

Stephen Hawking

#2. I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

Ian McEwan

#3. If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

Steve Guttenberg

#4. It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age ... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#5. Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent - paralyzed or disabled or limited

Stephen R. Covey

#6. Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

Simone Elkeles

#7. I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#8. When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.

Luis Cubero

#9. I'm the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I'm obviously physically challenged. Whether I'm a genius is more open to doubt.

Stephen Hawking

#10. 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

#11. You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.

Stephen Hawking

#12. If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

Joel Osteen

#13. Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

James Vincent McMorrow

#14. Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

Rhonda Byrne

#15. While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

Aimee Mullins