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.
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.
Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.
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