Amy Purdy Quotes

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

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

It's been a reality check that my muscles are still really affected by my spinal cord injury, but it's also been super empowering to see how much I'm capable of.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

I've learned about myself that I'm much stronger than I ever had any idea about myself.

You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, and you need to be very strong and smart.

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

What we can do is control what we can control.

My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I'll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It's probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn't affect my movement.

I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

At times when you transform yourself and when you've opened too much, you tend to doubt how you're going to face it, how you're going to react to a situation, so it's important that you believe yourself.

We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.