101 Inspirational Alcohol Recovery Quotes

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” – J.K. Rowling

“Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.” – Tess Callahan

“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“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

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil

“All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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,

“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

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey

“Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead.” – Saint Charlotte

“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

“It’s okay to bleed on someone who didn’t cut you. Don’t wait until you’re scarred over to ask for help. Healing starts when the wound is still new.” ― Toni Sorenson

“Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.” ― Toni Sorenson

Addiction Recovery Quotes About Self Love

Learning to love yourself is an acquired skill that many go their entire lives without genuinely learning. Unfortunately, self-loathing tends to go hand-in-hand with active addiction – and addiction is frequently caused by low self-esteem and deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. So, it’s no surprise self-love and addiction recovery are two terms you usually don’t see together. 

The key to finding self-love while managing addiction is self-compassion. While addicts often struggle with guilt and self-loathing, it’s crucial to have kindness, warmth, and care toward oneself. Self-compassion involves nurturing yourself despite the circumstances. 

“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

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” – Anne Frank

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” – Hecato

“Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.”– Shigenori Kameoka

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. “– Jon Kabat-Zinn

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” – Ramona L. Anderson

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wild

Addiction Recovery Quotes for a Better Life

For so long, your life has centered around drugs or alcohol, but when you have the opportunity to redo everything from scratch, it can be challenging to know how or where to begin. Your whole life can’t revolve around work and recovery. You also have to have fun, which is still possible without substances.

The rapper Eminem also battled with a substance use disorder that centered around painkillers. After he went through detox and entered recovery, he had trouble sleeping without using drugs. He began to run 17 miles per day. This approach could work for you as exercise creates the endorphins that substances once supplied.

 “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

 “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring”. – David Bowie

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future”. – Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.” – Nicole Reed

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me.” — Mary Karr

“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

“Recovery is an ongoing process, for both the addict and his or her family. In recovery there is hope. And hope is a wonderful thing.” — Dean Dauphinais