International Day of Persons with Disabilities, commonly known as “International Day of Disabled Persons” is celebrated on December 3 to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.
Following are the Inspiring disabilities quotes and slogans with images.
- Disability Slogans – Funny and Inspiring
- Inspiring Disability Quotes
Disability Slogans – Funny and Inspiring
“I Am Differently Able.”
“Paralyzed: Hearing Is Fine”
“We Are Burning But Don’t Stop Learning”
“I Can Not Walk What’s Your Disability?”
“I Can’t Walk Straight So You Will Just Have To Wait.”
“Blind Kids Rule, Save Our School”
“You Don’t Need To Walk To Soar?”
“Quick Isn’t Always Best”
“We Are People..We Are PEOPLE With Disabilities”
“If There’s A Wheel, There’s A Way”
“I Choose Not To Place DIS In My Ability.”
“I’M Only In It For The Parking”
“D.I.S.Ability – Do It Sitting Ability”
“Disability Isn’t Contagious, Ignorance Is!”
“See The Person, Not The Disability”
Inspiring Disability Quotes
“What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.” » Joey Reiman
“Know me for my abilities, not my disability.” » Robert M. Hensel
“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 discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.” » Alexander de Seversky
“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
“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
“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” » Jimmy Dean
“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
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking your potential.” » Winston Churchill
“The difference between those who fail and those who succeed is largely perseverance. Never quit.” » Charles Schwab
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” » Kevyn Aucoin
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.” » Thomas Edison
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” » Muhammad Ali
“The message I’ll share…is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.” » Clay Aiken
“In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending – including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.” » Jennifer Granholm
“When everyone else says you can’t, determination says,”YES YOU CAN.” » Robert M. Hensel
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.” » Martina Navratilova
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” » Christopher Reeves
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” » Thomas Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” » Thomas Edison
“My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.” » Robert M. Hensel
“I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I’d like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!” » Bella Thorne
“There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.” » Sharron Angle
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life… the children; those who are in the twilight of life.. the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life the sick, the needy and the disabled.” » Hubert Humphrey
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body.” » Sloane Crosley
“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
“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
“Let’s face it, in America today we don’t have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled – and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.” » Tom Harkin
“I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.” » John Forbes Nash, Jr.
“I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the beginning of the race.” Winston Churchill
“These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ‘able-bodied’ folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.” » Daniel H. Wilson
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” » Helen Keller
“The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.” » Jesse Jackson
“I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’ And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.” » Aimee Mullins
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” » Albert Einstein
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” » Mark Twain
“The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.” » Bill Toomey
“Disability doesn’t make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.” » Stella Young
“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
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” » Albert Einstein
“I choose not to place “DIS”, in my ability.” » Robert M. Hensel
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” » Winston Churchill
“We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick… the trade union for the nation as a whole.” » Edward Heath
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” » Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can’t normally do otherwise.” » Jack LaLanne
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” » Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I have a Disability yes that’s true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.” » Robert M. Hensel
“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
“I don’t have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.” » Robert M. Hensel
“Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.” » Emma Thompson
“It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.” » Susan Hampshire
“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
“Placing one foot in front of the other, I’ve climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I’m just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn’t won.” » Robert M. Hensel
“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.” » Jessa Gamble
“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible.” » Stella Young
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.” » Ezekiel Emanuel
“It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.” » Dick Durbin
“Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” » William J. Brennan, Jr.
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” » Walt Whitman
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” » Francis of Assisi
“Nobody’s good in everything. Advantages and disadvantages come in many forms.” » Charles Schwab
“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
“Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.” » Darell Hammond
“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 quotes
“I’ve had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It’s sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don’t say your friend’s retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don’t be mean to people.” » Lauren Potter
“Limitations only go so far.” » Robert M. Hensel
“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.” » Stephen Hawking
“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
“I have a son, Mason, who is disabled – cerebral palsy – and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.” » Laura San Giacomo
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” » Scott Hamilton
“The more I read and the more I talked to other parents of children with disabilities and normal children, the more I found that feelings and emotions about children are very much the same in all families. The accident of illness or disability serves only to intensify feelings and emotions, not to change them.” » Judith Weatherly
“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.” » Simone Weil
