The path to recovery is never easy. It’s important to always keep yourself motivated and remind yourself why you are in this journey. One way to source inspiration is to read and share inspirational quotes that can help you stay on-track.
When you fill your mind with positive thoughts, this could help you feel better and push away thoughts of depression and negativity. According to psychology and motivation expert Jonathan Fader, motivational quotes act as a self-coaching mechanism. Reading the quotes makes you realize that someone out there actually believes you can do whatever you want to archive. This makes it a powerful incentive to try harder and not give up on your pursuit.
Sharing these quotes could also help other people who are in the same situation, especially with the popularity of quotes on social media. Sometimes seeing a timely saying in your news feed can really change your mood or how you approach your day. If you are in search of positive vibes, here are some of the best motivational quotes for people undergoing recovery.
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.”
– Demi Lovato
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.”
– Brittany Burgunder
“You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.”
– Seth Adam Smith
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
– Steve Maraboli
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsch
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
– Napoléon Bonaparte
“Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.”
– Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.”
– Shannon Perry
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
– Chris Bradford
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain
“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
“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
– Criss Jami
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
– Criss Jami
“No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.”
– Jeanette LeBlanc
“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
– Jim Morrison
“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
– Carrie Fisher
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
– Zen proverb
“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
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
– Roger Babson
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford
“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
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
– Yogi Berra
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
– Babe Ruth
“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
“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
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
– Michael Jordan
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.”
– Sharon Salzberg
“Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.”
– Anne Fletcher
“Where there is life there is hope.”
– Ron Grover
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you or a loved one is struggling with substance abuse, contact Anaheim Lighthouse to learn more how we can be of help.
