Wheelchair Warriors

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. - William A. Ward

The wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. - Annette Funicello

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. - Walt Schmidt

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - L. Ron Hubbard

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E Faust

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha.' - Ernst Haas

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

The 12-step chocolate program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away. - Stephen Hawking

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society. - Rush Limbaugh

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace

Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife, love's enduring presence remains steadfast. - Eleesha

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H Spurgeon

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had. - Tom Petty

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. - Samuel Daniel

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. - Ram Dass

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus