Addiction quotes give you the strength to keep fighting even when you feel like you can’t fight anymore. Staying motivated keeps you sober and energetic throughout your recovery process.
If you’re looking for a way to rejuvenate your energy daily, here are some quotes to brighten your days.
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55 Quotes on Addiction
1. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan
2. “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.” -Mahatma Gandhi
3. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
5. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
6. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
7. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
8. “When you rise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ― Marcus Aurelius
9. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s 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
10. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”– Mahatma Gandhi.
11. ‘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
12. “The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.” – Debra L. Kaplan
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. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
15. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
16. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
17. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.” – Fergie
19. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.”- Unknown
20. “Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in.” – Johann Hari
21. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi
22. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection.” – Unknown
23. “If you chased your recovery like you chased your high, you would never relapse again.” – Unknown
24. “Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you’ve got.” – Unknown
25. “Adapt the remedy to the disease.” – Chinese Proverb
26. “Never underestimate a recovering addict. We fight for our lives every day in ways most people will never understand.” – Unknown
27. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar
28. “We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain.” – Unknown
29. “I am not defined by my relapses, but in my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” – Unknown
30. “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” – Richard Evans
31. “Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you’ve got.” – Unknown
32. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
33. “One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time.” – Unknown
34. “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
35. “It’s a beautiful day to be sober.” – Unknown
36. “Recovery is not for people who need it. It’s for people who want it.” – Unknown
37. “There’s not a drug on earth that can make life meaningful.” – Unknown
38. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Zen Proverb
39. “At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.” – Frank Tallis
40. “Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey
41. “What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller
42. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it.” — James Lee Curtis
43. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” – Anne Fletcher
44. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
45. “Be stronger than your strongest excuse.” – Unknown
46. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
47. “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” – George Chakiris
48. “You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.” – Anne Lamott
49. “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely … change is due to wanting power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” – George Sheehan
50. ‘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
51. ‘Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things and good things never die.’ – Stephen King
52. “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
53. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
54. “If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Roger Babson
55. “Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Final Thoughts
Recovering from addiction can be overwhelming, especially if you lack support from friends and family. However, it all takes courage to quit the addiction you had, so this means you’re strong if you’ve taken that step.
If you’ve started the recovery process, you definitely should complete it. Go, go, CHAMP, you got this!
