When you relapse or are on the verge of relapsing, it can be easy to think that your addiction recovery is over. Relapse quotes can help you realize that with the right mindset and support, there’s always hope for a full recovery. This list of relapse quotes will provide you with some of the most powerful words of wisdom and inspiration. Hopefully, these relapse quotes will help you see that life is full of ups and downs. Relapse does not mean failure or the end – it can be a momentary setback on your path to lasting sobriety.
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Relapse Quotes
I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.
Anonymous
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story, you keep going.
Robyn Schneider.
Recovery is about progression, not perfection.
Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
Lilly Singh
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.
Unknown
There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.
Leon Brown
When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time – regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life may not be going well for you now, but as long as you are here, as long as you press forward, anything is possible. Hold on to hope.
Nick Vujicic
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Anne Radmacher
Recovery is something you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.
Demi Lovato
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.
Cause sometimes you just feel tired. Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength. And just pull it out of you, and get that motivation to not give up, and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face.
Eminem
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving up is the only sure way to fail.
Gena Showalter
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
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who had kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.
Tim Tebow
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Jack Canfield
You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
George Eliot
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Charlie Hunnam
Moving forward is one of the most important decisions we can make in life because it allows us to grow, learn new lessons, have more energy, enjoying more peace, and overcome our adversaries.
Dr. Peter Nieman
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