70 Best Quotes For Addiction Recovery

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Addiction Treatment in Inspirational

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If youre struggling to overcome an addiction, no one needs to tell you its tough youre
living it. Sometimes you could use a few encouraging words to remind you that youre
not in this alone and that, yes, change really is possible.
With that in mind, here are 70 quotes for those in recovery , each designed to shine a little
light when things look dark.
Best Addiction Recovery Quotes
1. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bront
2. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
3. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. Carrie Fisher
4. Believe you can and youre halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, Im possible! Audrey Hepburn
6. People often say that motivation doesnt last. Neither does bathing. Thats why we recommend it
daily. Zig Ziglar
7. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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8. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated
day in and day out. Robert Collier
9. Its difficult to believe in yourself because the
idea of self is an artificial construction. You
are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of
the universe. Everything beautiful in the
world is within you. Russell Brand
10. When everything seems to be going against
you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
11. If we are facing in the right direction, all we
have to do is keep on walking. Zen Proverb
12. Though no one can go back and make a
brand new start, anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard
13. I hated every minute of training, but I said,
Dont quit. Suffer now and live the rest of
your life as a champion. Muhammad Ali
14. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
15. If things go wrong, dont go with them. Roger Babson
16. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say. Unknown
18. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you dont know how great you can be!
How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank
19. It always seems impossible until its done. Nelson Mandela
20. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
21. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. Its perfect when it arrives
and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes weve learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
22. What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. Hecato
23. Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. Mahatma Gandhi
24. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of whats bitter
and move on. Bill Cosby
25. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
26. If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. Benjamin Alire Senz
27. I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means
knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves
stronger. Samuel L. Jackson
28. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it
says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, theres something stronger something
better, pushing right back. Albert Camus
29. Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese Proverb
30. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your
treasure. Joseph Campbell
31. Whether you think you can or you think you cant, youre right. Henry Ford
32. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anas Nin
33. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. Alice Walker
34. The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby
35. Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
36. Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow. Larry
Michael Dredla
37. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to
move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what youve done. Robert
Downey Jr.
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38. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Charlotte Whitton
39. Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move
forward. Brian Tracy
40. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde
41. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb
42. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
43. I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Rosa Parks
44. When was the last time you woke up and wished youd had just one more drink the night before? I have never
regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and youll get through anything. Meredith Bell
45. The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
46. If you dont know where you are going, youll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra
47. Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
48. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves
by thinking about who we dont ever want to be again. Shane Niemeyer
49. Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle
50. The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver
Wendell Holmes
51. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth
52. Ive been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and Ive never let it keep me from doing a single thing I
wanted to do. Georgia OKeeffe
53. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. Theodore T. Hunger
54. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul
be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
55. Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. Brian Tracy
56. If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
57. To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of
life. Samuel Johnson
58. As one goes through life, one learns that if you dont paddle your own canoe, you dont move. Katherine
Hepburn
59. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn
60. We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new
addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. George
Sheehan
61. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
62. Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bernard Williams
63. I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson
64. The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke
65. What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight
that must be understood. Alice Miller
66. If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan
67. I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
68. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
69. You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
70. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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