50 Inspirational Quotes for Injury Recovery: Find Your Strength

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

- Confucius

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

- Audre Lorde

"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

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Jamie Lee Curtis

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

- Demi Lovato

"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

"Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can."

- Paulo Coelho

"Do not rush, for God’s secret is patience. Everything that is meant to be, will come at the designated time."

- Leon Brown

"The process of healing does not end when the wounds are no longer visible – it ends when the wounds no longer ache."

- Muskan Sharma

"Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing."

- Caroline Myss

"It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way."

- Perry Noble

"Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility."

- Denice Frohman

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."

- Hippocrates

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Awareness is the first step in healing."

- Dean Ornish

"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."

- Harry Crews

"There is beauty in the journey, regardless of the outcome. Let’s grieve and hope, and fight together."

- Marie White

"And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope."

- Ellen Pompeo

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place."

- David Hume

"Healing requires from us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less."

- Darina Stoyanova

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

- Yoko Ono

"Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care."

- Jerry Cantrell

"Healing involves discomfort. But so is refusing to heal. And over time, refusing to heal is always more painful."

- Resmaa Menakem

"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust

"Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal."

- Laura Fitzgerald

"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

- Gary Zukav

"Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger."

- Keanu Reeves

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

"By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing."

- Caroline Myss

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive."

- Nelson Mandela

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."

- Caroline Myss

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."

- Sai Baba

"The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. It's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it."

- Cheryl Strayed

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Jung

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."

- Paracelsus

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."

- Buddha

"We grieve because we love. The intensity of the grief often proclaims the depth of our love."

- Gary Roe

"The soul is healed by being with children."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness."

- Reba McEntire

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

- Socrates

"Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time."

- Brené Brown

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

- Marianne Williamson

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All healing is first a healing of the heart."

- Carl Townsend

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

- Anne Wilson Schaef

"The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good."

- Catherine Ponder

"To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing."

- Sylvia Fraser

"Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."

- Proverbs 16:23-25

"Healing is the end of conflict of yourself."

- Stephanie Gailing

"Learn from the past, be thankful for the past, forgive the mistakes of the past, and let it go."

- Debasish Mridha

"Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf."

- Jonatan Mårtensson

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

- Alexander Chase

"If your goals aren't synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won't matter much."

- Danielle LaPorte

"Words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."

- Sarah Fielding

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."

- Charles H. Perkhurst

"'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive."

- John Sheffield

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

"Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it."

"The best revenge is no revenge. Heal yourself and move on. Don't become like those who have hurt you."

"Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside."