Addiction Recovery Sayings and Quotes to Get You Through the Day

1.       "Recovery is hard. Regret is harder." — Brittany Burgunder

2.       "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.       "Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it." — Jamie Lee Curtis

4.       "Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." — Rikki Rogers

5.       "Recovery is about progression, not perfection." — Unknown

6.       "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt

7.       "You are stronger than you think, braver than you believe, and smarter than you know." — A.A. Milne

8.       "Your recovery is the most important thing in your life without exception. You may believe that your job, or your home life, or one of many other things come first, but consider this: without your sobriety, you will lose all those things anyway." — Anonymous

9.       "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela

10.  "Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese Proverb

11.  "You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town." — Anne Lamott

12.  "Recovery is a journey, not a destination." — Unknown

13.  "Sobriety is a journey of self-discovery and self-love." — Unknown

14.  "The comeback is always stronger than the setback." — Unknown

15.  "Every day is a chance to change your life." — Unknown

16.  "Recovery is not for people who need it, it’s for people who want it." — Unknown

17.  "Recovery is taking all twelve steps…over and over and over and over…" — Toni Sorenson

18.  "The best time for new beginnings is now." — Unknown

19.  "One small step today, one giant leap tomorrow." — Unknown

20.  "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." — J.P. Morgan

21.  "Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!" — Unknown

22.  "Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength." — Napoleon Bonaparte

23.  "Recovery means you are not giving up on yourself." — Unknown

24.  "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." — Jim Rohn

25.  "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher

26.  "You are enough just as you are." — Meghan Markle

27.  "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." — Buddha

28.  "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

29.  "You are worthy of love and belonging." — Brené Brown

30.  "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself." — Harvey Fierstein

31.  "You are worthy, no matter what others say or think. Your worthiness is intrinsic." — Unknown

32.  "You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it." — Unknown

33.  "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." — Rumi

34.  "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." — J.M. Barrie

35.  "Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy." — Wayne Dyer

36.  "You are valuable and irreplaceable. If you are ever told otherwise, do not believe it." — Unknown

37.  "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do." — Brené Brown

38.  "You are more than enough. You are capable of amazing things." — Unknown

39.  "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.  "You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." — Amy Bloom

41.  "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." — Maya Angelou

42.  "Self-worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don’t feel good about you, it’s hard to feel good about anything else." — Sandy Hale

43.  "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." — Eleanor Roosevelt

44.  "You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you." — Song of Solomon 4:7

45.  "You are a masterpiece, not because you are perfect but because you are wonderfully made." — Unknown

46.  "You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang

47.  "You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." — Louise Hay

48.  "The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." — Sonya Friedman

49.  "You are enough just as you are. Each and every flaw is part of what makes you unique and beautiful." — Unknown

50.  "The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself." — Maya Angelou

51.  "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." — Alan Watts

52.  "You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past." — Joel Osteen

53.  "The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life." — Hal Elrod

54.  "Addiction is not about drugs. It’s about what the drug does to your life." — Unknown

55.  "You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King Jr.

56.  "Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change." — Jim Rohn

57.  "Recovery is an act of self-love." — Unknown

58.  "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt

59.  "The best way to predict your future is to create it." — Abraham Lincoln

60.  "Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today." — Will Rogers

61.  "Recovery is about taking the steps, however small, that will lead you to a healthier, happier life." — Unknown

62.  "It always seems impossible until it’s done." — Nelson Mandela

63.  "You are stronger than you know, braver than you think, and more capable than you ever imagined." — Unknown

64.  "Your past does not determine who you are. Your actions and decisions in the present do." — Nicky Gumbel

65.  "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." — Babe Ruth

66.  "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

67.  "You were born with the ability to change someone’s life. Don’t ever waste it." — Dale Partridge

68.  "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are." — J.P. Morgan

69.  "Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on, but you keep going anyway." — Unknown

70.  "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." — Brian Tracy

71.  "You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." — C.S. Lewis

72.  "The greatest wealth is health." — Virgil

73.  "You have the power to say, ‘This is not how my story will end.’" — Unknown

74.  "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

75.  "The comeback is always stronger than the setback." — Unknown

76.  "The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth." — Unknown

77.  "Don’t let the past steal your present." — Terri Guillemets

78.  "If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up." — Unknown

79.  "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis

80.  "Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand up taller than you ever were." — Unknown

81.  "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson

82.  "You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." — Dan Millman

83.  "Don’t let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present." — Unknown

84.  "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher

85.  "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

86.  "The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost