Browsing Topic Best Overcoming Addiction Quotes

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

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

No matter how far you drive, you are always the same distance from the ditch.

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

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

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

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

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

Do not let your fire go out.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

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

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

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

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.

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

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

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven’t touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

Look the world straight in the eye.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

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.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.