This post contains some of the best road to recovery quotes.
Road To Recovery Quotes
1. “The road to Recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I’ve dreamed about for so long.” – Amanda Lindhout
2. “Addiction denied is recovery delayed.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
3. “Addiction is a repeated temporary…stilling. I am concerned with peace…not mere relief.” – Edward Albee
4. “Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. “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
6. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
7. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
8. “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
9. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” – Terri Guillemets
10. “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
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11. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
12. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
13. “I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” – Unknown
14. “I really mean it when I say my biggest fear in early recovery was that I would never have fun again. The beautiful truth is that recovery has given me freedom and the confidence to go out in the world and leave my own mark.” – Tom Stoddart
15. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” – Sade Andria Zabala
16. “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
17. “I used drugs to feel better. I quit drugs to be better.” – Unknown
18. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy; I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams
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19. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking.” – Buddhist Proverb
20. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
21. “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
22. “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, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
23. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
24. “Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.” – George Ade
25. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” – Anne Fletcher
26. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” – Demi Lovato
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27. “Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.” – Steven Alder
28. “Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.” – Jimmy Connors
29. “Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!” – Unknown
30. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection.” – Unknown
31. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
32. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.” – Brittany Burgunder
33. “Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.” – Unknown
34. “Recovery is not for people who need it. It’s for people who want it.” – Unknown
35. “Recovery is something you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” – Demi Lovato
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36. “Recovery is taking all twelve steps…over and over and over and over…” – Toni Sorenson
37. “Relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.” – Phillipa Perry
38. “Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.” – Shannon Perry
39. “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
40. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil McGraw
41. “Sometimes, there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.” – David Sheff
42. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” – Unknown
43. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Bishop W.C. Magee
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44. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
45. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.” – Richard Rohr
47. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
48. “There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.” – Leon Brown
49. “There’s no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes, there’s a long pause between relapses.” – Alan Moore
50. “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
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