The road to recovery can be long and hard. Though you may stumble and fall along the way, it is not the end of the journey. When you’re in recovery, sometimes you’ll have to reach deep inside yourself to find the strength to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and continue the climb to sobriety. Here are some quotes to carry with you and to give you strength when you need it most.
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
- “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
- “Recovery is something you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” -Demi Lovato
- “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou
- “I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.” -Og Mandino
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Never, never, never give up.” -Winston Churchill
- “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” -George Washington
- “Self belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli
- “There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.” -Hope Hicks
- “There is no shortcut. It takes time to build a better, stronger version of yourself.” -Unknown
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It is wise to focus your anger towards problems-not people, to focus your energies on answers-not excuses.” -William Arthur Ward
- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It takes courage….to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” -Marianne Williamson
- “Hate the sin. Love the Sinner.” -Gandhi
