Biography of famous personalities with disabilities

Who inspires you?

Is it someone who has accomplished something that you dream of doing? Or is it someone who has overcome great obstacles to succeed in spite of all the challenges they face?

Maybe it’s someone who’s done both.

Like those who’ve achieved great success in the arts, music, sports, politics or business, while living their lives to their fullest—from their wheelchairs.

These people prove the truth of Franklin Roosevelt’s statement that “men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”

They didn’t view their wheelchairs as a limitation but as a tool to take them where they wanted to go.

They didn’t see their disabilities as insurmountable obstacles, but as challenges that would push them to achieve great things.

They didn’t focus on what life had taken away from them but rather on what life had to offer.

They truly learned how to not only adjust to life in a wheelchair but to triumph, no matter the odds.

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