Inspirational quotes about addiction and recovery
“No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes and professions.” - Patrick J. Kennedy
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“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
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it.” - Jamie Lee Curtis
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”- Katharine Hepburn
“What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” - Joseph Campbell
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last.” – Anonymous
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection.” – Johann Hari
“Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford
“Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.”- Anonymous
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”- J.K. Rowling
“You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight.”- Anonymous
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese proverb
“I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” – Anonymous
“There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.” – Leon Brown
“Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.” – George Ade
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
“I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.” - Craig Ferguson
“I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.” - Jane Fonda
“My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That’s who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else. It gives me a spiritual anchor.” - Eric Clapton
“Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.”- Kate Middleton
