I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

Creating one unified body in addressing the issue of disability will help the disabled.

When you have a disability, people think you are weak. They think they can prey on you.

It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

I just see myself as a driver. The disability plays a part but I don't see myself as disabled.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

It doesn't feel like anything I have is a disability because I can do anything I put my mind to.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.

You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.

Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

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