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Special Quotesfor

Special Needs People

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Copyright © 2013 by Craig Marcott

Special Needs Consultant

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes For People and Families With Special Needs

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“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Nelson Mandela

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can direct the sails.” Author Unknown

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

Joseph Campbell

ACCEPT

L IFE

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry David Th reau

“All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands.” Anonymous (The est of Bits and Pieces)

“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much.” Mother Teresa

TRUST

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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” Abraham Lincoln

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” Th mas Carlyle

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“From an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.” Aimee Mullins

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton

ATTITUDE

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Hope Is The Th g With Feathers

Hope is the thing with feathersTh t perches in the soul,And sings the tune—without the words,And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormTh t could abash the little birdTh t kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chilliest land,And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

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“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Jones

“For myself, I am an optimist; it does not seem to be much use being anything else.” Winston Churchill

“Whenever God closes one door, He always opens another, even though sometimes it’s Hell in the hallway.” Author Unknown

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” Maori Proverb

“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.” Temple Grandin

FEEL WITHTHE HEART

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston Churchill

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”

Helen Keller

“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.” Anne Geddes

“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit

OPTIMISM

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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” Wayne W. Dyer

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” Walter Elliot

GIFT

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“There are only two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” Robert Benchley

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain

“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” Mildred Witte Struven

COURAGE

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“Storms make Oaks take roots.” Proverb

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” Helen Keller

“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.” Mary Oliver

A DARING ADVENTURE

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“To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: ‘leave no stones unturned’.” Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, the word itself says, I’M POSSIBLE!!” Audrey Hepburn

“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.” Whoopi Goldberg

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” C. C. Scott

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if

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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come.” Anne Lamott

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” Alfred Adler

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” Christopher Reeves

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“One always overcompensatesfor disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.”

Douglas Adams

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” Helen Keller

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” Albert Schweitzer

HUMOR

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“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” Benjamin Franklin

“The more diffi lties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.” Horace Bushnell

“I have Attention Deficit Disorder…Hey! What’s that? Can I play with it?”

Author Unknown

PLAY

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“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up” Nelson Mandela

“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.” Helen Keller

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain

“If you think you can or you think you can’t, either way, you’ll be right.” Henry Ford

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“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” Nelson Mandela

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

“Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.” Charles Sawyer

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Attitude

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what others think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.” Charles Swindoll

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You may be wondering how a pair of red sneakers became part of my logo. I was looking for something distinctive

to wear when I give my Special Needs Workshops. I eventually turned to my brother, Scott, for input, and he

helped by choosing a pair of bright red Nikes.

The sneakers became so popular that I began wearing them with my business attire and they became an instant hit. That led me to have new business cards designed with red sneakers

as the logo. People apparently love them — and the story behind them — because they keep asking me for more.

It works for me. I enjoy wearing the red sneakers. They remind me of Scott, who has Down syndrome, and the

reason I do what I do. And although I take what I do very seriously, it’s hard to take myself too seriously when I look

down at my bright red Nike’s.

Warmest regards,

Craig Marcott

What’s Up With The Red Sneakers?

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