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.
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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