29 Addiction Quotes to Help You Through

Inspiration can come from a number of sources.  As a motivation during the struggle against addiction, it can help to think of these sayings from different perspectives or to meditate on some of them that seem particularly pertinent.

1. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

When battling addiction it is important to remind yourself that our world is complicated and can wear on you. Keep focusing on rebuilding to gain new strength.

2. 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

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

4. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’– Audrey Hepburn
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5. Believe you can and you are halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

6. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain


7. My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last.


8. No matter what the situation is, remind yourself “I have a choice.”

9. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. – Charlotte Brontë

10.  An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. – Criss Jami

11. The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.

12. People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. – George Bernard Shaw

13. I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them
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14. Great acts are made up of small deeds. – Lao Tzu

15. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. – Zen proverb

16. Recovery is about progression not perfection.
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17. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius 


18. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
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19. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra

20. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

22. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

23. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoléon Bonaparte

​24. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
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25. 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

26. No other road, no other way, no day but today.  – Jonathan Larson

27. Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.
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28. 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.

29. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela