Handicaps Quotes

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Helen Keller

Gratitude, Adversity, Knowing Who You Are

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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Paul Tournier

Life, Change, Running

Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Education, Children

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Stupid, Power, Intellectual

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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

Art, Writing, Loss

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

Martina Navratilova

Autism, Perception, Needs

"Grand Ideas from Within". Book by Janice M. Mcdermott, Joan Stewart (p. 15), 2005.

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My handicap? Woods and irons.

Chris Codiroli

Funny, Golf, Iron

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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Jack Lemmon

Sports, Dirty, Golf

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Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Og Mandino

Positive, Pain, Attitude

Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.79, Bantam

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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

Betty Friedan

Sex, Men, Copying

Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Jacques Barzun

Swings, Intellectual, Privilege

Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali

Creativity, Design, Creative

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Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

Two, Black, Female

Unbought and Unbossed introduction (1970)

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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Philip Gibbs

Fighting, Done, Prohibition

Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

Change, Struggle, Teaching

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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Vivien Leigh

Thinking, People, Acting

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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

Needs, Disability, People With Disabilities

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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

Margaret Mead

Heart, Men, Artist

Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

Isaac Marion

Real, Symptoms, Left

Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Stevie Wonder

Benefits, Way, Used

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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

Alistair Cooke

Golf, Two, Insane

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That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

Hugo Black

Religious, Groups, Doe

Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

Golf, Men, Funny Golf

Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.165, Open Road Media

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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

Keys, Special, Literature

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There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Anil Kapoor

Hardship, Faces, Hurdling Obstacles

Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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