Last Updated on December 5, 2020 by Scott M. Thomas
Addiction is a physical inability to terminate consume a chemical, drug activity, or something like that. One can destroy himself by consuming constant drugs or chemicals. Addicted people keep using alcohol or a drug even when they know it will cause problems. But many people are confident enough to recover from this negative dependency. Recovery is not so easy though. You can start your journey by quotes. Quotes is a life-saving material. Nothing is as powerful as language. When you fill your mind with positive and inspiring thoughts, this could drive you to feel better and push away negative things. May these inspirational quotes for addicts help you to recover quickly.
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” – George Addair
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken” – John Green
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius
“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
“The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials” – Chinese proverb
“You have to break down before you can breakthrough” – Marilyn Ferguson
“I really mean 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
“Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial” – David Stafford
“Someone once told me, ‘I heard you finally got rid of your addiction.’ I smiled and said, ‘No, addiction doesn’t work like that. Once you have it, you will always have it. I just choose not to feed it” – Anonymous
“Recovery isn’t always easy, but it certainly beats the alternative” – Anonymous
“Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up” – Anonymous
“Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow” – Susan McMahon
“Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead” – Saint Charlotte
“You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight” – Anonymous
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery” – Demi Lovato
“The best idea and the best expression of it amount to nothing without action to back them up” – Unknown
“One small step is worth more than a thousand steps planned” – Unknown
“Believe you can and you are halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Great acts are made up of small deeds” – Lao Tzu
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault” – John Henry Newman
“Don’t let the past steal your present” – Terri Guillemets
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them” – George Bernard Shaw
“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you” – Aldous Huxley
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened” – Michel de Montaigne
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery” – Demi Lovato
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Recovery is hard. Regret is harder” – Brittany Burgunder
“You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you” – Seth Adam Smith
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient” – Steve Maraboli
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward” – Charlotte Brontë
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places” – Ernest Hemingway
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength” – Napoléon Bonaparte
“Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change” – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength” – Chris Bradford
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear” – Mark Twain
“Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain” – Shannon Perry
“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
“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears” – Criss Jami
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate” – Criss Jami
“No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out” – Jeanette LeBlanc
“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths” – Drew Barrymore
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain” – Jim Morrison
“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell” – Carrie Fisher
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out” – Robert Collier
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking” – Zen proverb
“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
“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them” – Roger Babson
“It always seems impossible until it’s done” – Nelson Mandela
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford
“I think that 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 you’ve done” – Robert Downey Jr.
“Fall seven times, stand up eight” – Japanese proverb
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you” – Jim Rohn
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else” – Yogi Berra
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run” – Babe Ruth
“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
“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
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome” – Michael Jordan
“You must do the things you think you cannot do” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Where there is life there is hope” – Ron Grover
“Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom” – Sharon Salzberg
“Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind” – Anne Fletcher
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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