Samuel Okoruwa
Recovering from an addiction in never an easy path. You always need to stay motivated and remind yourself why you started this journey in the first place. One of the best ways to gain inspiration is by reading motivational quotes that will help you stay on track.
Motivational quotes are powerful because they remind you that someone else has been through what you’re going through now and has overcome it. Here are the best motivational quotes about addiction and recovery that will inspire you to keep pushing on your journey.
1. “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Brontë
2. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
3. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “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
5. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
6. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
8. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
10. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
11. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoléon Bonaparte
12. “Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.” – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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13. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil
14. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
15. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.” – Shane Niemeyer
17. “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
18. “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
19. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
20. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.” – Jean Church
22. “Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.” – Henry Ford
23. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
24. “Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.” – Bill Wilson
25. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
26. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
27. “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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