Recovery Quotes

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

You can’t find a simple, symbolic solution to a social and spiritual crisis.

Johann Hari

Throwing yourselves into recovery doesn’t mean hiding from grief, pain, misery, aching. It just means you go with the present experience—when these emotions come, you open up to them and let them in—but you choose to get up in the morning and get out in the knowledge that, if you want to win this fight for survival, you’ve got to step up and take control.

Lucy Hone

It is never too late to mend.

English Proverb

Our torments also may in length of time, become our elements.

John Milton

Don’t let a slip become a slide.

Tracey Owens

The opposite of addiction is connection.

Johann Hari

When life turns sour for us, we will either turn to addictive behaviour or to a deep desire to know God in a better and more intimate way.

Roy Clark

Addiction is finding a quick and dirty solution to the symptom of the problem, which prevents or distracts one from the harder and longer-term task of solving the real problem.

Donella H Meadows

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

James Baldwin

We move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

Anne Wilson Schaef

You don’t recover from an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier not to use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will eventually catch up with you again.

God made the human heart so big that only He can fill it.

Eric Walsh

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Brontë

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t let the past steal your present.

Terri Guillemets

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

C S Lewis

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change your behaviours and your feelings will follow.

Susan McManhon

Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.

Henry Ford

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day, begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

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

Yogi Berra

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese proverb

Addiction denied is recovery delayed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it’s going on when you don’t have strength.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr Seuss

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Chico Xavier

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus