As an avid reader, a struggling writer and a lover of language, like many people I collect quotes. I’ve seen so many floating around on the social networking sites that are motivational and often shared in a business context. Less often do I read quotes pertaining to disability and adversity, so I thought I’d share a few of my favorites of these here. Please comment and share your own.
On disability:
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well,
you are needed by someone. -Martina Navratilova
Disability is physical and ability lies in the mind. William Maphoto
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.-Mark
Twain
We are each so much more than what some reduce to measuring.
— Karen Kaiser Clark
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must
recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less
arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a
fitting place.
— Margaret Mead
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, & I learn, whatever
state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
On adversity:
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee
The Power Principle: Influence with Honor by Blaine Lee
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
The Book of Positive Quotations
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.
L.I. Jacks
Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren
One of my all-time favorites:
"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, playwright
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