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.
Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
I was beaten by police and sat in their precinct holding cell, certain that my future was already decided. And now I will be the person in charge of that precinct, and every other precinct, because I'm going to be the mayor of the City of New York.
If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
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