Top 160 Recovery Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Addiction Quotes

2. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

3. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Optimism Quotes

4. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

— Christopher Reeve

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes

5. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Resilience Quotes

6. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Addiction Quotes, Sobriety Quotes

7. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Resilience Quotes

8. “Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.”

— Judith Lewis Herman

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Addiction Quotes

9. “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.”

— Rob Lowe

Also featured in: Quitting Quotes, Addiction Quotes, Sobriety Quotes

10. “But I’ve also learned I am not powerless over some things. I am not powerless over my attitudes. I am not powerless over negativity. I am not powerless over assuming responsibility for my own recovery.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Also featured in: Quitting Quotes, Addiction Quotes, Sobriety Quotes

11. “Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I’m proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Health Quotes, Depression Quotes

12. “I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Survival Quotes

13. “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”

— Hayley Williams

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Giving Up Quotes, Challenges Quotes

14. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”

— Frank Sinatra

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes About Life, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Challenges Quotes

15. “Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Mind Quotes, Soul Quotes, Health Quotes

16. “You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Adversity Quotes

17. “You have to stay strong when it gets tough.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Not Giving Up Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Adversity Quotes

18. “Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.”

— Jackie Chan

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

19. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

— Elton John

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Feel Better Quotes

20. “I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Helping Quotes, Healing Quotes

21. “Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

22. “So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.”

— Johann Hari

Also featured in: Addiction Quotes

23. “When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

24. “I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes

25. “Every time I’ve failed, people have had me out for the count, but I always come back.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Adversity Quotes

26. “Don’t workout because you think you ‘need’ to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Feel Better Quotes

27. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

— Melody Beattie

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women, Healing Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

28. “I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Artist Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

29. “Time heals almost everything. Give time time.”

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Patience Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

30. “Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Adversity Quotes

31. “When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Healing Quotes, Past Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Hurt Quotes

32. “Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Healing Quotes, Health Quotes

33. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Loss Quotes

34. “Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Different Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

35. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

36. “Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Healing Quotes, Stress Quotes

37. “Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Cute Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Love You Quotes

38. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Healing Quotes, Pain Quotes

39. “It’s never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.”

— Dave Ramsey

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes

40. “Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”

— L.R. Knost

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Healing Quotes, Quotes About Reality

41. “Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.”

— Robert Cheeke

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Health Quotes

42. “We all fall in life. The question is: who gets back up?”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Cheer Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

43. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Coaching Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

44. “After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.”

— Katy Perry

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Rainbow Quotes

45. “When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.”

— Pattie Mallette

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Keep Your Head Up Quotes

46. “Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.”

— Michael J. Fox

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Conscience Quotes

47. “Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.”

— Steve Harvey

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Epic Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

48. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

— Serena Williams

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Loss Quotes

49. “It’s a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Past Quotes

50. “If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that’s enough.”

— David A. Bednar

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Consistency Quotes