Aimee Mullins Quotes, Issues Quotes, Disability Quotes

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

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I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

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At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

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The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

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It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

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With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

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It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

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Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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