Recovery and Addiction Quotes to Help You Heal

For anyone struggling with addiction, quotes about addiction resonate with you deeply. If you’re on your journey of recovery, or know someone who is, share these addiction quotes with them to show your support.

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.


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

2. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

4. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” – Terri Guillemets

5. “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

6. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

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

8. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

9. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

10. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
11. “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

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

13. “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

14. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” – Unknown

15. “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

16. “Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow.” – Susan McManhon

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

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

19. “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

20. “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” – Chinese proverb

Every recovery is different. Many people relapse before their recovery becomes stable. You can skip the relapse but if you don’t, you can begin your recovery journey again. This time you’ll be wiser from what you learned before. The key is to have hope and keep moving in the direction you want to go.

Our hope is that the quotes above have resonated with you and given you the strength you need to recover. Whenever you need that extra push of motivation, pull out these quotes on addiction to remind you that change really is possible.



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