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Addiction is defined as a form of dependency. It can be habitual, compulsive, or physical. People are addicted to something when they are psychologically dependent on it, and its need becomes extreme. Its often associated with biological factors, including genetics, brain chemistry, hormones, and childhood trauma. However, the main cause of addiction is not biological but psychological – people are exposed to addictive substances or behaviors that offer instant gratification or relief from negative feelings.
The first step in fighting addiction is acknowledgment- the addict must realize that there is a problem and need help. These quotes will help you in your journey to quit a habit. They’ll give you hope when you need it the most to heal from the pain.
55 Inspirational Addiction Quotes
1. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ― Japanese proverb
3. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” ― Zig Ziglar
4. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” ― Anonymous
5. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” ― John Green
6. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
7. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it’s going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
8. “Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” — Robert Downey Jr.
9. “The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost
10. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” ― Chinese proverb
12. “Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.” ― Henry Ford
13. “Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.” ― Bill Wilson
14. “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” ― J. Petit Senn
15. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ― Babe Ruth
16. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
17. “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.” ― Jim Morrison
18. “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ― Mary Pickford
19. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” ― C.S. Lewis
20. “Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
21. “Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.”― Mango Wodzak
22. “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
23. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” ― Anne Fletcher
24. “Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness.”― Bernard Kelvin Clive
25. “Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead.” ― Saint Charlotte
26. “You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight.” ― Anonymous
27. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” ― Dr. Seuss
28. “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ― Chico Xavier
29. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
30. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” ― Bishop W.C. Magee
31. “Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow.” ― Susan McManhon
32. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
33. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” ― Demi Lovato
34. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” ― Zig Ziglar
35. “If today is your past come tomorrow, then make your past your future of today.”― Darrel Loyd
36. “Addiction is a repeated temporary…stilling. I am concerned with peace…not mere relief.”― Edward Albee
37. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” ― Aldous Huxley
38. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn
39. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius
40. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” ― Unknown
41. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
42. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.” ― Brittany Burgunder
43. “You have to break down before you can break through.” ― Marilyn Ferguson
44. “Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.”― Toni Sorenson
45. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” ― Jordan Belfort
46. “Too much of a good thing is toxic.”― Aysha Taryam
47. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” ― Terri Guillemets
48. “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials.” ― Chinese proverb
49. “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” ― Theodore T. Hunger
50. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” ― Dr. Phil
51. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli
52. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ― Jim Rohn
53. “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
54. “Addiction denied is recovery delayed.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
55. “We should be open to change to ensure that our addiction to life always remains under check.”― Dr Prem Jagyasi
