Norm Crosby Quotes

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

People categorise people as being disabled, and it's basically whatever you put your mind to, you can do, and everybody that has limitations, they can still do anything they want as long as they set their mind to it.

You're not disabled unless you say 'I'm disabled.'

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told, You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

If you're disabled, and you're trying to achieve your dreams, accept the fact right now that you have to work 500 times more than the average bear next to you. Stop bucking for sympathy, put on your titanium legs, and run.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

You are always bigger than the problem, the problem can never be bigger than you.

I'm stronger than I think I am.

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

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

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

I am more important than my problems.