Negative attitude is the greatest disability in the world. There is nothing more damaging than the thought that one cannot do something. Any task we approach with a negative attitude is already half lost. So many difficult feats are credited to disabled and physically challenged amongst us. If you have a body without any disability you can achieve anything. Why can’t you…when the disabled can achieve so much?

American cyclist, Lance Armstrong, won the Tour de France cycle race seven times consecutively from 1999 to 2005 after suffering from cancer that damaged his brain and lungs.

British pilot, Douglas Bader, established himself as a war hero and an ace flyer are losing both his legs in a plane crash.

One of the world’s greatest music composers, Ludwig van Beethoven (known for his legendary composition “symphony”), composed music even after he became completely deaf in 1817.

Sarah Bernhardt, a French actress, continued to act in movies after she lost a leg in 1914.

An Italian opera singer, who was blinded at the age of 12, went on to become an international singing sensation.

Being blind did not prevent, Louis Braille, from inventing the Braille printing technique which uses raised dots to enable blind people to read by feeling the text with their fingers.

Spanish author, Miguel de Cervantes, penned literary masterpiece “Don Quixote” after he lost an arm in a battle.

After losing a leg to cancer, Canadian athlete Terry Fox, raised funds for a cancer charity through long distance running.

Paralysed by a gun attack while reporting from Saudi Arabia in 2004, television reporter Frank Gardner resumed duty with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

British physicist Stephen Hawking, suffers from motor neurone disease which has confined him to a wheel chair. He speaks with the aid of a voice synthesizer. But, that did not deter him from becoming the celebrated author of “A Brief History of Time.”

Blind and deaf Helen Keller was a renowned author and lecturer.

British Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson, lost an arm and an eye in a battle. But, he posted many naval victories including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

The four time US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was crippled by polio and spent most of his time on wheelchair.

Born blind, US singer Stevie Wonder, has become one of world’s greatest entertainers.

If people with so many disabilities could achieve so much, what is stopping you from achieving what you want to do? It is only your negative attitude…a feeling that you cannot do something. Just overcome your negative attitude and the floodgates of success will open up before you.

If you are in one piece and if you have no apparent disability, you are almost God. You can do anything! Just believe in yourself…