Inspirational Special Needs Quotes and Sayings

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These quotes about special needs will help you navigate your own unique parenting journey with a smile and some positivity

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. – Martina Navratilova

Special Needs Parent Quotes

As parents of children with special needs, we can often feel frustrated, depleted and even hopeless.

While everything may seem like a challenge, it is important to also pause and count our blessings.

These quotes are for the parents of special children out there who need some inspiration:

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears – Ellen Goodman

I don’t think the worst thing that could happen to me is raising a child with special needs. I think the worst thing is to raise a child who is cruel to those with special needs.

As special needs parents we don’t have the power to make life, “fair,” but we do have the power to make life joyful.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

Embrace the unique way your child is blooming – even if it’s not in the garden you imagined.

In all kinds of ways- if we are willing, our children take us into places in our hearts we didn’t know existed. – Dr. Shefali Tsabary

A diagnosis can’t predict the extraordinary love you will have for your child. – Tara McCallan

Special needs parents are the equivalent of Batman, Captain America, and the Incredible Hulk combined with a side of Mary Poppins. – Unknown

Never let anyone dis your ability to make the right choices regarding your child’s disabilities. – Lisa Thornbury

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them – Magic Johnson

Special Needs Inspiration

Different does not mean less and these quotes help us to remember that having special needs does, indeed, come with some special qualities that should be celebrated.

These positive words for special needs are meant to uplift and inspire.

With tremendous burdens often come enormous gifts. The trick is to identify the gifts, and glory in them. – Maya Shetreat-Klein

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails – H. Jackson Brown

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it. – Dorothy Thomas.

Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be. – Rita Pierson

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton

It’s not a Race, It’s a Journey! – Cynthia Carr Falardeau

God’s plan will always be greater and more beautiful than all of your disappointments. – Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about. Unknown

Most people see what is and never see what can be. – Albert Einstein

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us! – E.M. Forster

You have a choice each and every single day. I choose to feel blessed. I choose to feel grateful. I choose to be thankful. I choose to be happy. 

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’. – Mary Ann Radmacher

Special Needs Children Quotes

These positive words for special needs are directed to our special children.

Special children quotes help our kids remember that they are pretty incredible blessings to us.

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me … Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. – Shel Silverstein.

Promise me you’ll always remember… you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved move than you know. – Christopher Robin

And though she be little, she is fierce. – Shakespeare

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot

They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same. – Kurt Cobain

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? – Dr Seuss

You can only make a difference by being different. – Rick Warren

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.

I don’t need easy. I just need possible. – Bethany Hamilton

A child is like a butterfly in the wind. Some can fly higher than others, but each one flies the best it can. Why compare one against the other? Each one is different, each one is special, each one is beautiful.

Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and to be more creative. – Sonya Parker

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I hope these inspirational special needs quotes and sayings brought you some peace of mind today.

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