100+ Inspirational Quotes to Empower and Uplift Recovering Addicts

"Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"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

"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection."

- Johann Hari

"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

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."

- Steve Goodier

"Recovery is hard. Regret is harder."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Everyone has inside them 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

"These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice."

- Ann D. Clark

"Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom."

- Sharon Salzberg

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"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

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."

- Dalai Lama

"The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

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

- Socrates

"If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’"

- Muhammad Ali

"One day, you’ll tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide."

- Brene Brown

"I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn’t understand why the happiness never came, couldn’t see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed because already drinking hadn’t made me feel good in years."

- Heather King

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours."

- Zig Ziglar

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back."

- Albert Camus

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work — hard, painful work — but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"I wanted a drink [because] I didn’t want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn’t bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It’ll hurt, it’ll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going."

- Lawrence Block

"We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. Be patient with yourself."

- Bryant McGill

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way."

- Dalai Lama

"I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute. If I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk."

- Craig Ferguson

"Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die."

- Stephen King

"Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward."

- Brian Tracy

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"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

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends of being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step."

- Naeem Callaway

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life."

- Brené Brown

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking."

- Buddhist Proverb

"No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out."

- Jeanette LeBlanc

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery."

- Demi Lovato

"You have to break down before you can breakthrough."

- Marilyn Ferguson

"Life is a series of relapses and recoveries."

- George Ade

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Recovery is taking all twelve steps…over and over and over and over…"

- Toni Sorenson

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Addiction denied is recovery delayed."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together."

- Toni Sorenson

"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."

- Hecato

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"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

"I think that the power is in 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.

"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

"It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, only that you do not stop."

- Confucius

"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

"Above anything else—above family or job—the main thing is staying sober. That’s because without being sober, I don’t have a family or a job."

- William Regal

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"I realized that I only had two choices: I was either going to die or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said those words, ‘I’ll get help,’ or, ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around. Ridiculous for a human being to take 16 years to say, ‘I need help.’"

- Sir Elton John

"If it wasn’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community, to actively be around my people because they understand me. They get it."

- Macklemore

"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

"All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely … change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now."

- George Sheehan

"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

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

- Dr. Seuss

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing."

- Gary Oldman

"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

"And that’s what it’s like for me in recovery at times. Afraid to take on responsibility, new sponsees or something, or allowing myself to stand up and shine… I’ve got new tools, I’ve got new hope, new love, new respect for myself."

- James Hetfield

"A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength."

- Matthew Perry

"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.

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You’re like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you’ll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal."

- Anne Clendening

"Asking for help is really the beginning of any sort of recovery process."

- Marc Maron

"Recovery is not simple abstinence. It’s about healing the brain, remembering how to feel, learning how to make good decisions, becoming the kind of person who can engage in healthy relationships, cultivating the willingness to accept help from others, daring to be honest, and opening up to doing."

- Debra Jay

"Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in."

- Johann Hari

"People who go through rehab or a halfway house walk a tough road together and not all of them make it. We knew we faced a powerful adversary that demanded respect. Unlike combat, the adversary was inside us."

- Rob Delaney

"I change when I’m drunk. I’m one of those people who changes…There is something in any person who drinks in a way that’s clearly not good for them, something that is attracted to that chaos."

- Daniel Radcliffe

"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time… Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers —common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words."

- Stephen King

"I couldn’t believe that anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody, ‘It does get better.’"

- Eminem

"Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was ‘liberation from dependence’."

- Leslie Jamison

"I think it’s important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn’t made me soft. I’m on a mission to prove I’m still a nutcase."

- Steve-O

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"When was the last time you woke up and wished you’d had just one more drink the night before? I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you’ll get through anything."

- Meredith Bell

"It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self-esteem. It’s the perfect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self-loathing."

- Gary Oldman

"At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain."

- Frank Tallis

"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."

- Wendell Berry

"I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it."

- Anthony Kiedis

"People always want to ask me about my drug problem—I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!"

- Gloria Gaynor

"Sometimes when in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, when actually you’ve been planted."

- Christine Caine

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I’ve been the lead in movies, on television shows and nominated for Emmy. But the best thing I can say about me is that people who can't stop drinking come up to me and say, 'Can you help me? ' And I can say, 'Yes. '"

- Matthew Perry

"The healthy person finds happiness in helping others. Thus, for him, unselfishness is selfish."

- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) saying

"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We honor ourselves when we speak out for recovery. We show the world that recovery matters because it brings hope and peace into the lives of individuals and their loved ones."

- Beth Wilson

"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.

"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

"Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain."

- Shannon Perry

"Sobriety was the best gift I ever gave myself."

- Rob Lowe

"Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data."

- Kevin McCormick

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can."

- Dallin H. Oaks

"Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing."

- Dan Buettner

"Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

- William James

"I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it."

- Ace Frehley

"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

"All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. "

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."

- Bernard Williams

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind."

- Anne Fletcher

"You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew."

- Albert Einstein

"It is 10 years since I used drugs or alcohol, and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and, generally, a bright outlook… The price of this is constant vigilance because the disease of addiction is not rational."

- Russell Brand

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick."

- Brene Brown

"No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

- 1 Corinthians 10:13

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."

- James 1:2

"It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed."

- Doe Zantamata

"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

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

- James 4:7

"If things go wrong, don't go with them."

- Roger Babson

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

"A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls."

- Proverbs 25:28

"Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety and my response was ‘liberation from dependence’."

- Leslie Jamison

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower."

- Shigenori Kameoka

"Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you."

- Dr. Phil

"First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If things go wrong, don’t go with them."

- Roger Babson

"I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb."

- Jessica Simpson

"Once I was clear-headed, and I hadn’t been clear-headed in so long, I was like, I can never go back. And I’m still thankful."

- Travis Barker

"Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Don’t let the past steal your present."

- Terri Guillemets

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."

- Michael Jordan

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Before you can break out of prison, you must realise you are locked up."

- Anonymous

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Breakthroughs don’t get planned, they are prepared for."

- Goitsemang Mvula

"Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow."

- Larry Michael Dredla

"I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring."

- David Bowie

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

- Charlotte Whitton

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"A negative mind will never give you a positive life."

"I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it."

"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."

"I’m not telling you it is going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it!"

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

"Recovery is about progression, not perfection."

"I refuse to give up on myself."

"I can change my story."

"Not all battles are won the very first time they are fought. Stay strong and prepare for the days that are harder while embracing the easier days."

"Don’t let an obstacle set you back. There are ways around or through anything that happens to you that don’t include the use of alcohol or drugs."

"Always be proud of the steps you have taken to get where you are, no matter how small. It takes courage and strength to beat addiction."

"Even though you may not be in the place you have wished for, you are still on the way. Don’t give up on your dreams when you have come this far."

"The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need alcohol or drugs to alter your mind. You are worthy of a lifetime of love."

"You can’t go back and change the past, but you can make a whole new future for yourself."

"Either do not begin or, having begun, do not give up."

"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward."

"You’re not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for your behavior."

"No one said that moving forward in recovery would be easy. But you can rejoice in the fact that you are doing something extremely difficult and succeeding."

"Recovery is not an easy task. It takes courage, heart, and determination. You have that in you and so much more."

"As you move forward in recovery, don’t forget the person you once were when you were using. Sometimes that is all we need to stay sober."

"You are the only person who can change your future. Whoever you decide to be is all up to you."

"The human spirit is tougher than any material known to man. Keep your spirits high as you face the future clean and sober. You can do anything you want to."

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

"There is no time limit to recovery. Every day is another day that you are can proclaim a success."

"There is no better feeling than counting the days you are in recovery. Keep those numbers in mind when you don’t think you can do it anymore."

"Rock bottom is the first step to a clean and sober you. Not only is there nowhere to go but up, but you now have room to learn and grow."

"Enjoy all the world has to offer as you navigate it in recovery. You’ve opened up more than you could imagine."

"You either give up and let the day ruin you, or you fight and come out victorious in the end. The choice is yours."

"It’s easy to give up when you have failed in the past. But wouldn’t it be amazing to look back and relish in your great triumph?"

"Don’t allow past failures to define you as a person. We all fail sometimes, but it is how we try again and again that makes us victorious."

"Every day in recovery is a gift. The best way to get through the harder days is to continue to fight as hard as you need to."

"We all have incredible strength and power. Sometimes it takes hitting rock bottom to realize just how strong we are."

"You may feel as though every day is a struggle. But think of how you will feel when you finally make it to the top."

"No matter how bad it was in the past, your better days are waiting for you. Enjoy them in your new, sober light."

"Changing your destructive behavior will cause a significant change in your character. Find a new you while you take recovery day by day. You’ll be shocked at what you’ll experience."

"You’ve gotten through the first stages of recovery already. While some days will be harder than others, don’t let those days go to waste by falling into old habits. You have the power to change."

"We all have the power to make a change in our behaviors. Don’t allow what happened in the past to define you for the rest of your life."

"Everyone deserves to be happy and content. Find your peace in the future, and forget what you did when you were using."

"Imagine the respect you will receive as you move forward in recovery. There is no greater feeling than the feeling of complete success."

"Recovery doesn’t just end one day. It is a commitment that you must accept daily. However, every day gets a little bit easier on the road to recovery."

"We are harder on ourselves than anyone else. Treat yourself the same way you would treat someone you love- you are worth it."

"Always believe in yourself, even if it seems as if you are the only one. You have the power it takes to make a change."

"Motivation and commitment can be tough. But beating an addiction to drugs and alcohol is tough, too. Keep on moving forward and don’t look back."

"There is no better victory than being able to say you are sober. Remember that when you are tempted to go back to your old self."

"Always stay strong no matter what happens today. Every day is a new beginning with worlds of possibilities in front of you."

"Be strong when you are faced with your past demons. You’ve conquered them before, and you can face them again."

"You’re worth much more than you could ever imagine, even with a past you are not proud of. Stay strong and keep moving forward."

"Carry yourself with your head held high and strength in your heart. You deserve the promise of a new day."

"Recovery takes time. But now that you are in recovery, you have plenty of time to make it work."

"Don’t keep your mind in the past- you do not live there any longer. Stay focused on the future and who you are becoming."

"It takes a strong person to stay in recovery. Face your fears head-on, and you’ll begin to see change."

"You can’t change the things that happened to you in the past, but you have full control over what will happen in the future."

"It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy."

"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."

"Adapt the remedy to the disease."

"Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."