Many of life’s experiences are quite exhilarating, igniting that feeling of wanting more. Often times, these things are positive and fulfilling, whereas others can be more harmful and depleting. To have an addiction is to be consumed by a strong force that you must battle with every day.
It is not easy to jump into recovery – but every step toward it is something to be proud of. If you or a loved one is struggling with any addiction, there is a way out.
Use these quotes on addiction to help you persevere through the darkness, and find motivation through your journey.
Inspirational quotes on addiction to help your recovery
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Brontë
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil
“Don’t let the past steal your present.” – Terri Guillemets
“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.” – Russel Brand
“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“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
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
Quotes on addiction to motivate you through your journey
“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
“Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow.” – Susan McManhon
“All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” – Chinese proverb
“Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.” – Henry Ford
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“No other road, no other way, no day but today.” – Jonathan Larson
“Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.” – Bill Wilson
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
“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
Addiction quotes to strengthen your resolve
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
“I think that the 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
“When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” – Unknown
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” – Zig Ziglar
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Bishop W.C. Magee
“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.
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life.” – Brené Brown
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. 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
More sayings and quotes on addiction
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
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