90 Recovery and Addiction Quotes to inspire Sobriety

Addiction is one of the darkest stages of life. Almost 23 million Americans are currently addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs. Addiction recovery requires lot of perseverance, self-awareness, optimism, will power and discipline. Coping with cravings and dealing with relapse are toughest steps in the journey of getting sober. Motivation can drive you away from the chaos and destruction of addiction, steering us into clean and sober lives. Use these Recovery and Addiction Quotes to inspire Sobriety and find motivation through your journey.

Addiction Quotes

1. “Addiction quitting is to stop feeding your addiction.” ~ Invajy

2. “When you can stop, you don’t want to. And when you want to stop, you can’t. That’s addiction.” ~ Anonymous

3. “Addiction denied is recovery delayed.” ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

4. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.” ~ Brittany Burgunder

5. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” ~ Audrey Hepburn

6. “Addiction is a repeated temporary…stilling. I am concerned with peace…not mere relief.”~ Edward Albee
7. “Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.”~ Toni Sorenson
8. “Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness.”~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
9. “People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.” ~ Anonymous
10. “Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.” ~ David Stafford

Recovery Quotes

11. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change. ” ~ Jamie Lee Curtis
12. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection.” ~ Anonymous
13. “Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!” ~ Anonymous
14. “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
15. “Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.” ~ Mango Wodzak
16. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
17. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy; I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” ~ Art Williams
18. “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
19. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” ~ Zen proverb
20. “Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes inspiring Sobriety

21. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” ~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz
22. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
23. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” ~ Anonymous
24. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” ~ Robert Downey Jr.
25. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” ~ Demi Lovato
26. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J.K. Rowling
27. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” ~ Anonymous
28. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” ~ Demi Lovato
30. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you have no strength.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotes about Addiction and Recovery

31. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” ~ Lao Tzu
32. “One thing you must realize is that: you either kill your addiction or your addiction will eventually kill you.” ~ Oche Otorkpa
33. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” ~ Terri Guillemets
34. “When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.” ~ Anonymous
35. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
37. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ~ Steve Maraboli
38. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsch
39. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.” ~ Jeanette LeBlanc
40. “In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

Addiction Quotes

41. “Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.” ~ Anonymous
42. “An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” ~ Stella Adler
43. “We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
44. “Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
45. “Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.” ~ George Ade
46. “Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.” ~ Kevin McCormick
47. “Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.” ~ Steven Alder
48. “There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.” ~ Leon Brown
49. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
50. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”  ~ Zig Ziglar

Motivational Quotes for Addiction Recovery

51. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” ~ Vince Lombardi
52. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
53. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
54. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” ~ David Richo
55. “Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
56. “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
57. “You have to break down before you can break through.” ~ Marilyn Ferguson
58. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair
59. “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.” ~ Jim Morrison
60. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

Addiction Recovery Quotes

61. “It’s not all over, till you have the courage to comeback.” ~ Invajy
62. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” ~ Dr. Phil
63. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” ~ Aldous Huxley
64. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”~ Zig Ziglar
65. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
66. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” ~ C.S. Lewis
67. “Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow.” ~ Susan McMahon
68. “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” ~ Chinese proverb
69. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
70. “No other road, no other way, no day but today.” ~ Jonathan Larson

Addiction Quotes

71. “What did you think? I would not comeback? See I am back.” ~ Invajy
72. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
73. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ~ Lou Holtz
74. “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
75. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Japanese proverb
76. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~ Confucius
77. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer
78. “There are people who are addicted to sadness the way others are addicted to coffee or cigarettes.” ~ Marty Rubin
79. “Just because something is familiar, doesn’t mean it’s safe. And just because something feels safe, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.” ~ Brittany Burgunder
80. “The Power to redefine your life and purpose is in your hands, use it effectively like a wise person.” ~ Oche Otorkpa

Drug Addiction Quotes

81. “The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.” ~ Russell Brand
82. “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a hundred times.” ~ Mark Twain
83. “Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in.” ~ Johann Hari
84. “The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.” ~ Debra L. Kaplan
85. “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
86. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” ~ Anne Fletcher
87. “You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.” ~ Anne Lamott
88. “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.” ~ Kurt Cobain
89. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb
90. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford

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