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.
Interpretation
Overcoming disabilities requires immense effort and determination, far more than what is typically expected.
This quote emphasizes the extraordinary effort and resilience required by individuals with disabilities to pursue their dreams. It encourages them to reject sympathy and instead embrace their strength, compare themselves not to the limitations but to the ambitions they hold, and work tirelessly towards their goals, symbolized by the metaphor of 'putting on titanium legs' to run towards achievement.
In practice
During a motivational speech about perseverance and resilience.
I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.
I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.
If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.
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