Special Needs Quotes

• If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

  Cherie Blair

  Children, Special, Important

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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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• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Children, Struggle

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• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

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• The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Sibling, Special

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• Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

  Sarah Palin

  Children, Joy, Challenges

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• When you have a child who has special needs, you really start thinking about children across the board with special needs.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Children, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

  Allen Klein

  Children, Treasure, Difficult Times

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• More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than that. And there is a spiritual dimension to people...we are driven to want something more.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Spiritual, Sex

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

  J. P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

  Sarah Palin

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  John Wayne

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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• You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

  Lori Borgman

  Mother, Horse, Children

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Christian Inspirational, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Mom, Kids, Talking

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• Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

  Lauren Potter

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

  Eva Longoria

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Children, Parent, Special

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

  Mia Farrow

  Children, Real, Kids

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