Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 8, 2011

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Positivity

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Wade Boggs

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
Myles Munroe

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.
Dale Carnegie

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers

A man is literally what he thinks.
James Allen

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Hellen Keller

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
Sam Elliott

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
Matt Cameron

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
Nadia Comaneci

You must not, under any pretense, allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.
Peggy Fleming

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. 
Zig Ziglar

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
Albert Einstein

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony D'Angelo

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

We tend to live up to our expectations.
Earl Nightingale

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitable bring about right results.
James Allen

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
Nadia Comaneci

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Willard Scott

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walter Chrysler

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
Napoleon Hill

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong ... Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom
Thich Nhat Hanh

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Edward Rickenbacker

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
Parminder Nagra

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Unknown

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverb 23:7 Bible

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone

The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind.
Dolf de Roos

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
Mira Sorvino

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
Chuck Norris

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity  Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Vivekananda

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
Knute Rockne

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Thaddeus Golas

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
William John Wills

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is," said Christopher Robin.
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
A.A. Milne

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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Change

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
W. L. Bateman

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis

 The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash

 You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.
Susan Skye

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
William Edward Burghardt DuBois

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
Anne Frank

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
Sharon Salzberg 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer

Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
Bill Clinton

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Unknown

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson

To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
William James

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston Churchill

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Japanese Proverb

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
Anne Wilson Schaef

What man actually needs is not a tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Viktor Frankl

Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I can be changed by what happens to me, but i refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
Paul Valery

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Agnetha Faltskog

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river.
Steven Foster

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
Stephen Sigmund

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
Marilyn Ferguson

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Saint Augustine

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Change always comes bearing gifts.
Price Pritchett

If you don't create change, change will create you.
Unknown

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
John C. Maxwell

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G.C. Lichtenberg

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Sharon Salzberg

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Unknown

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafiz of Persia

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare

Life is a progress, and not a station.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
Marge Piercy

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin


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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Joy

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.  
Mother Teresa 

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri Nouwen

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.
Abraham-Hicks

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

 

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway

 

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.
Deepak Chopra 

 

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

 

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

Alan Cohen

 

Begin today. Declare out-loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. 

Buddha

  

Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe’s way of knocking on your mind’s door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good! The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.  

Steve Chandler

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

 

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys I therein find, that it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.
David Cameron Gikandi 

 

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
Torkom Saraydarin

 

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

 

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
Daisaku Ikeda

 

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life…
Charlotte Jojo Beck 

 

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. 

Greg Anderson

 

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Madeleine L'Engle 

 

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller 

Joy, has no cost.
Marianne Williamson

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. 
Helen Keller

 The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos

 

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
Martha Beck

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. 
Helen Keller 

 

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
William Blake 

 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus 

 

One joy shatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

 

You will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller

 

The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life.
Jack Boland 

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
J.Van Amerongen 

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?

Henry Miller

 

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

 

Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Eckhart Tolle

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edward Chapin

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia 

 

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson 

 

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell 

 

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
Abraham-Hicks

 

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

 

Sprinkle joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
Babaji

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path to joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach 

 

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth 

 

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson 

He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake 

 

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.

Sarah Flower Adams

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach 

 

From joy springs all creation, by joy it is sustained, towards joy it proceeds, and unto joy it returns.
Upanishads

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm 

 

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness…all the good things.
Maya Angelou

 The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
Pema Chodron 

 

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
Marianne Williamson

 

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker  

 

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.
Mary Anne Radmacher  

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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Self-Respect

Every time you suppress some part
of yourself or allow others
to play you small, you are
in essence ignoring
the owner's manual
your creator gave you
and destroying your design.

Oprah Winfrey

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Golda Meir

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Richard G. Scott

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Unknown

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well.

Psalms 139:14 Bible

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius 

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.

Unknown

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Ben Sweet

Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself.

Doc Childre

Not respecting yourself is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate.

Unknown

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Huxley

I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.

Minnie Smith

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

Joyce Brothers

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.

Alice Mary Hilton

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Our value is the sum of our values.

Joe Batten

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.

Wayne Dyer

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one’s self.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Gail Sheehy

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Theodore Parker

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Respect your efforts. Respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Nellie McClung

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dale Turner

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Miguel de Cervantes

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Joan Didion

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth, which constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

I have no right; by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

B. C. Forbes

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Maxwell Maltz

Let the river flow and you will be liberated. Let yourself go with current and you will find yourself. Let the wind so blow and you will be able to break yourself free very much like a ripened fruit of self-respect that sheds itself away from the tree of dependence. Let yourself be blown away humbling as a fallen petal and you will find yourself above the lowly dust of ground, to finally discover the truth of your existence for yourself.

Saba Hasan

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king.

Orison Swett Marden

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Making A New Year's Resolution? Remember...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: October 5th, 2010

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint Exupery


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 25th, 2010

For a tree to become tall, it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
Friedrich Nietzsche



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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Perseverance

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perseverance:
per·se·ver·ance
–noun
1.steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.


Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie

He conquers who endures.
Persius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Unknown

How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
André A. Jackson

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. 
Newt Gingrich

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

Don't be discouraged.  It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Unknown

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
Unknown

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Unkown

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race
Calvin Coolidge

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.  The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.
Tom Hopkins

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Stay the course, light a star, change the world where'er you are.
Richard Le Gallienne

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
T.F. Buxton

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist Saying

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Napoleon Hill

Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
Unknown

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.  Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.  If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
Robert Brault

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one has given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.
Jane Addams

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer

Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever.
Rudy Ruettiger

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
Unknown

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.
Coleman Cox

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Unknown

If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Anthony Robbins

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Unknown

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
Steve Martin

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. 
Josh Billings

When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Unknown

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
C. H. Spurgeon

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities, always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
G.B. Shaw

Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Unknown

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Unknown

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gorden B. Hinkley

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

For I, the Lord thy God, shall hold thy right hand and say unto thee, fear not for I will help you.
The Bible

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
 Julie Andrews

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is.
Unkown

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
Joyce Brothers

Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.
Unknown

It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win.
Navy Seal Masterchief

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock

It's always too soon to quit!
Norman Vincent Peale


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 18th, 2010

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 9, 2010

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey


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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Letting Go

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

Astrid Alauda

Stand up and walk out of your history.
Phil McGraw

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Mary M.Morrissey

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

There's an important difference between giving up and letting go.
Jessica Hatchigan

Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go of pain.
Brenda MacIntyre

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.
Bruce Lee

 I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over - it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world  I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.
Hugh Prather

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties
Gail Sheehy

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
 Lao Tzu

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Zen Proverb

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Unknown

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your weaknesses and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.
Neale Donald Walsch

Change is never easy, you fight to hold on, and you fight to let go.
The Wonder Years

The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
Sylvia Robinson

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
Vivian Green

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Leo Buscaglia

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.
Unknown

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.
Unknown

As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break.
Julia Butterfly Hill

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
Oprah Winfrey

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
Stefan Sagmeister

 Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Unknown

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'
Jack Kornfield

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Ann Landers

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
John Seely Brown

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go?
The Buddha

What's done is done.
William Shakespeare

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Brenda Ueland

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky

We need in love to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily--we do not need to learn it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Life's too short to be anything .... but happy
Unknown


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