Wheelchair Warriors

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

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

Pants: Something a dog does and a man steps into - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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

Start an editorial calendar that everyone involved in your blog can access. - Kristi Hines

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

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

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

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

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

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

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity. - Plutarch

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

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

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. - Stella Young

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

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

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

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

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

Four steps to achievement:
1. Plan purposefully.
2. Prepare prayerfully.
3. Proceed positively.
4. Pursue persistently. - William A. Ward

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

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