Recovery Quote Of The Week: December 16, 2011

One of these mornings you're going to rise up singing and you'll spread your wings and take to the sky...
Summertime lyrics


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: November 29, 2011

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The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Hoskins


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: November 18, 2011

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


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: November 8, 2011

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



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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Courage

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh
Milne

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra May Harris

Come to the edge.
We can't. We're afraid.
Come to the edge.
We can't. We will fall!
Come to the edge.
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Fear and courage are brothers.
Proverb

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
Douglas Malloch

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George Smith Patton

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.”
Unknown

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

A brave arm makes a short sword long.
Unknown

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Diane de Poitiers

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
Mignon McLaughlin

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

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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: Choices

 Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming. It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make, it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

Mike Dooley

This bright, new day... complete with 24 hours of opportunities, choices, and attitudes… a perfectly matched set of 1440 minutes. This unique gift, this one day, cannot be exchanged, replaced or refunded. Handle with care. Make the most of it. There is only one to a customer.

Unknown

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Randy Pausch

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

Flora Whittemore

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

Osho

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Cameron Crowe

Every morning when I get up, the first thing I decide is: What do I want? Misery? Blissfulness? What am I going to choose today? And it happens that I always choose blissfulness. It is my choice, it is my life.

Abdullah

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

W. Clement Stone

You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy.

Stephanie Marston

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

Gary Collins

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions, which a minute will reverse.  

 T.S. Eliot

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

W.J. Bryant

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be, or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

Judith M. Knowlton

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen R. Covey

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

Bill Meyer

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

Unknown

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. 

Anso Coetzer

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

 Leo F. Buscaglia

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.

Cherie Carter-Scott

 The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements

Anais Nin

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”

Stephen R. Covey

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

 William James

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... the power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen R. Covey

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. 

Unknown

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. 

Unknown

A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!

Kevin Heath

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. We always have the choice.

Dalai Lama

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

Choices are the hinges of destiny. 

Attributed to both Pythagoras and Edwin Markham

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Robert Fritz

Indecision becomes decision with time. 

Unknown

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Kofi Annan

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

A Course In Miracles

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."

Dodinsky

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tyron Edwards

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist,

or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.

Unknown

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. 

Anthony Robbins

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Jim Rohn

There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice.

Angeles Arrien

... everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms … to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: March 10, 2011

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull

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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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Recovery Quote Of The Week: January 19th, 2011

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: December 7th, 2010

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

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Recovery Quote Of The Week: November 22, 2010

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: November 13, 2010

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.
John Neal


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