Top 50 Recovery Quotes

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Recovery is a long road. However, you don’t need to go it alone. With that in mind, check out the top 50 recovery quotes.

#50 – 40. Recovery Quotes

50. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

49. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. – Zen proverb

48. 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

47. Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom. – Sharon Salzberg

46. In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you. – Billie Holiday

45. No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out. – Jeanette LeBlanc

44. If things go wrong, don’t go with them. – Roger Babson

43. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. – Carrie Fisher

42. Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind. – Anne Fletcher

41. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. – Chris Bradford

Sobriety is a journey – E.V. Stankowski

#39 – 30. Recovery Quotes

39. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. – Carl Gustav Jung

38. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears. – Criss Jami

37. 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

36. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

35. If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

34. Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain. – Shannon Perry

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

32. Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz

31. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you. – Seth Adam Smith

#29 – 20. Recovery Quotes

29. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese proverb

28. Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn’t end there. – Bucky Sinister

27. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

26. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

25. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoléon Bonaparte

24. An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. – Criss Jami

23. 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

22. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

21. 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 you’ve done. – Robert Downey Jr.

20. One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery. – Demi Lovato

#19 – 10. Recovery Quotes

19. If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. – Michael Jordan

18. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

17. I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. – William S. Burroughs

16. Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. – Steve Maraboli

15. Meetings are spoken of only minimally in the A.A. big book and the book – Timothy Conley

14. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. – Jean Cocteau

13. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

12. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’ – Audrey Hepburn

11. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsch

10. My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9 – 1. Recovery Quotes

9. Where there is life there is hope. – Ron Grover

8. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra

7. You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

6. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

5. Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. – Brittany Burgunder

4. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

3. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore

2. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. – Charlotte Brontë

1. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. – Jim Morrison

Ideas for the top 50 recovery quotes come from the following sources.^[1]quoteland – recovery^[2]Aneheim Lighthouse – 43 Drug Addiction Recovery Quote For Inspiration