Overcoming Disability Quotes & Sayings

I learned French before I learned Spanish. — Eva Longoria

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation. — Kelly Bryson

Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you ... — Daniel Wolpert

Ever since that day you danced into my life, I've done nothing but breathed your air. I'd suffocate without you. Braxxon Breaker — Crystal Spears

The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have. — Leif Gregersen

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know. — Nikki Rowe

But to change an old habit, you must address an old craving. You have to keep the same cues and rewards as before, and feed the craving by inserting a new routine. — Charles Duhigg

For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite of initiation: initiation into the language of the subculture within which I happen to live, into a way of explaining myself to myself. But gradually, it becomes a project of translating backward.
The way to jump over my Great Divine is to crawl backward over it in English. It's only when I retell my whole story, back to the beginning, and from the beginning onward, in one language, that I can reconcile the voices within me with each other; it is only then that the person who judges the voices and tells the stories begins to emerge. — Eva Hoffman

As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is. — Greg Walloch