Overcoming Addiction Quotes

• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

  Novalis

  Motivational, Memorial Day, Hero

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not let your fire go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Recovery, Fire, Sobriety

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence

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• No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Health, Commitment

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

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• No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Power, Addiction Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.610, Hamilton Books

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Our Society, Form

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Funny Sarcastic

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Wise, Inspiration

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• Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Inspiration, Recovery, Successful

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• Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

  Emile Coue

  Positive, Stress, Get Better

  De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)

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