Intellectual Disability: Top 10 Quotes

RCM’s Top 10 Inspirational Quotes related to Intellectual Disability

• “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

• “When you have a disability, knowing that you are not defined by it is the sweetest feeling.” – “In My Dreams I Dance ,”Anne Wafula Strike (p. 79)

• “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

• “Disability is not a brave struggle or ‘courage in the face of adversity.’ Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live.” Neil Marcus

• “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” William Arthur Ward

• “No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. It’s only when we step out of that labeled box, that our abilities begin to be fully recognized, giving us a better definition of who we truly are as individuals” Robert M. Hensel

• “It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer, than the limitations society tries to place upon them.”  Robert M. Hensel

• “I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.”