Wheelchair Warriors

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

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

Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. - C.W. Metcalf

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert H. Heinlein

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

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

Plugthug: Someone who'd kill for access to recharging facilities - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. - Peter F Drucker

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Slaves who are disabled from working shall be provided for by their masters. - Unknown

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

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

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

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

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity. - John C Maxwell

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

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

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. - Elizabeth Holmes

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C S Lewis

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

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. - John Calvin

Have a bias towards action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi