Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
AIMEE MULLINSIf we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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