Special Needs Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old special needs quotes, special needs sayings, and special needs proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It is crucial to understand that children with special needs also make decisions about how to find belonging and significance. Jane Nelsen
Children with special needs may be pampered. When pampering them, parents often underestimate their children's capabilities and use their condition as a justification for low expectations. Jane Nelsen
Children with special needs of any sort still have the same need to belong and feel significant in ways that invite positive responses from those around them. Jane Nelsen
The parents of children with special needs have always known that their kids deserved the same love and attention as other children. Jane Nelsen
We are all touched buy individuals with special needs at one time or another in our lives. Jennifer Fitzhugh
Raising a child with special need is hard on the entire family. Jennifer Fitzhugh
Raising a child with special needs changed the dynamics of our family, touching all of us in significant ways. Gary Chapman
No matter what the cause of the defect, disease, or inquiry, the fact remains that a child needs and deserves to enjoy the highest quality of life possible. Patrick Baldwin
If we are going to have children with special needs, then we were going to be experts on those needs! Linda Roan-Yager
When interviewing parents who were clearly living a joyful life with their children with special needs, it became clear that these parents were unusually resilient. Linda Roan-Yager
Parents of children with special needs too often inhabit a dry and thirsty land of isolation and despair. Jolene Philo
The difficulties that arise from having a child with special needs can be overwhelming, exhausting and all-consuming. Jonathan Singer
Kids with special needs can have very complicated issues, and sometimes there are no simple answers. Jonathan Singer
Life with a child with special needs can be filled with endless joys and constant challenges. Jonathan Singer
Celebrate even the smallest bit of progress made each day by your child with special needs and by everyone in your family. Jonathan Singer
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. Ellen Goodman
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. F Scott Fitzgerald
The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy. Sally Phillips
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. Martina Navratilova
Children With special needs need your love and support not sympathy. Mohd Uved
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. Sarah Palin
If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs. Cherie Blair
It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough. Elena Delle Donne
The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little. Marie Forleo
Children with special needs inspire a special love. Sarah Palin
A child with special needs will inspire you to be a special kind of person. Anonymous
Every learner has special needs. Andy Hargreaves
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Dalai Lama
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power. Marcus Tullius Cicero