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70 Best Quotes For Addiction RecoveryPosted 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 keeplooking 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 offagainst 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. LarryMichael 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 Bell45. 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 OKeeffe53. 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 likelychange 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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