Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Moving Forward

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
Kevin Costner

Time doesn't stop and wait for anyone. Move on.
Unknown

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .
Eileen Caddy

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
David Livingstone

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz

Sometimes looking back on what you had motivates you to keep moving forward...there's a reason why you left, keep going.
Unknown

There is no finer sensation in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
Vash Young

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Robert Downey, Jr.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you didn’t start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!
Kimora Lee Simmons

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

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Kwame Nkrumah

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
Kenny Loggins

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall

One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
Fridtjof Nansen

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
Phil McGraw

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
Melissa Etheridge

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Frank Gehry

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
Vince McMahon

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
Kenny Loggins

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
Jeremy Irons

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
Sean Connery

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
Ben Harper

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
Ed O'Brien

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
Herbie Hanc

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.
Lee Majors

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain


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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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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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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Inner Strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, "It all depends on me."
Andre Gide

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Daisaku Ikeda

Look well into thyself;there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Antoninus

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
Katherine Dunham

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao Tzu

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go. Unknown Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
August Wilson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
Corrie Ten Boom

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Arthur Helps

What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a world class version of your own.
Donald O. Clifton

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
Unknown

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Unknown

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben Jonson

May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent on another's judgment of your accomplishments...
Sandra Sturtz Hauss

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.
Sasha Azevedo

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,but for powers equal to our tasks,to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.
Donald O. Clifton

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

What this power is, I cannot say.All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.
Dalai Lama

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand


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