The ability to accept, forgive, and let-go allows us to move forwards, beyond the pain. Unburdened, we become limitless.
MrsM.
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Recovery Inspiration: Limitless
The ability to accept, forgive, and let-go allows us to move forwards, beyond the pain. Unburdened, we become limitless.
MrsM.
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1 commentsRecovery Quote: Your Struggle
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Don't let your struggle become your identity.
Ralston Bowles
Recovery Inspiration: The Choice Is Ours!
Life challenges our ability to accept, to forgive, to love, and to overcome. We can either face these challenges with grace and positivity, or relinquish our power and welcome defeat. The choice is ours!
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Inspirational Recovery: I'll Rise
Now you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
and I'll rise
I'll rise...
Out of the shacks of
history's shame
Up from a past rooted
in pain
I'll rise...
Ben Harper
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: January 3, 2013
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Recovery Image: Stop!
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Stop putting yourself down, comparing yourself to others, holding on to past mistakes, counting failures instead of blessings, hating your body, punishing yourself, expecting perfection, waiting, mourning 'what ifs' and 'could haves,' allowing what was to decide what could be. Let go. Move Forward. Stay Positive. Believe.
MrsM
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Recovery: Appreciating Beauty
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Recovery Quote of the Week: July 31, 2012
Life's like a piano. The white keys represent happiness, and the black keys show sadness. But as you go through your life’s journey, remember that the black keys make music too.
Anonymous
Recovery Quote of the Week: July 11, 2012
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Cameron Crowe
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Recovery Quote of the Week: June 30, 2012
You must dive the depths in order to experience the beauty of what exists below the surface.
Mrs.M
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: June 14, 2012
Today, I will take time to drink in the fresh spring air and sit with my thoughts for a while. I will not hurry, worry, or fear. I will live in this one glorious moment, fully. I will take from it all that it has to offer me. I will allow it to fill my soul.
MrsM
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Be Yourself: Inspirational Recovery Quotes
To thine own self be true.
Shakespeare
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. Cummings
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
Irene C. Kassorla
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
Lydia Maria Child
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Unknown
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out?
Oliver James
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
Leo Buscaglia
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.
James Poland
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Tony Robbins
Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
Gabrielle Roth
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Fortune Cookie
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann von Goethe
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Shirley MacLaine
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions, which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
Ralph Ellison
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you cant be exactly who you are.
Lady Gaga
Know thyself.
Thales
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Unknown
Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Boris Pasternak
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.
June Singer
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
John Mason
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
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The Journey: Inspirational Recovery Quotes
The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara DeAngelis
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Mike DeWine
It's pretty hard to get what you want when you're busy doing and being what you don't want.
Cheryl Janecky
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield
Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.
Robert J. Hastings
I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
Les Brown
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Kenichi Ohmae
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
Chinese Proverb
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
Erich Fromm
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield
There are many paths but only one journey.
Naomi Judd
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.
Unknown
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
Ella Maillart
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry
Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
John Engler
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D’Souza
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart
Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.
Bill Toomey
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Carl Rogers
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
Charisma Carpenter
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Mariska Hargitay
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Tad Williams
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de la Fontaine
The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.
Darren L. Johnson
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
Thank God for the journey.
James Brown
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Tyler Perry
Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Francesca da Rimini
Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda
For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Ann Bancroft
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Leif Garrett
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Yukio Mishima
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
Andrew Shue
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind… an adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
Jill Hennessy
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Richards
When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.
Japanese Proverb
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Grantland Rice
It's a journey; it's a fight everyday.
Peter Hobson
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Marianne Williamson
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
David Russell
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne Rich
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Marcia Wallace
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
Rollo May
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
Alex Noble
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
Oprah Winfrey
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Self-Confidence: Inspirational Recovery Quotes
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.
Brian Tracy
Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.
Ray Davis
With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami
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
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Richard Bach
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a
rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes
I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I’m marrying my dreams.
Unknown
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within them, so they fail in their search.
Dr. Nathaniel Branden
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Marianne Williamson
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others.
Leib Lazarow
Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.
Unkown
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Unknown
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but also the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barto
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
Cynthia Kersey
Love me or hate me. I’m still gonna shine!
Unknown
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier
Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford
My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn't fake, it was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now. I tell myself that I am the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do. I am the sort of person who has several companies, so I do. I am the sort of person WHO WRITES A BOOK! So I do. It's the process of having faith in the self you don't quite know you are yet, if you see what I mean. Believing that you will find the strength, the means somehow, and trusting in that, although your legs are like jelly. You can still walk on them and you will find the bones as you walk. Yes, that's it. The further I walk, the stronger I become.
Dawn French
If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.
Kees Broos
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith
The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Walt Disney
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
The only power that exists is inside ourselves....
Anne Rice
What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary.On the days when you feel low and invisible, why not try this on for size: imagine you are wearing a fantastic tailored tuxedo or a stunning formal gown. And then proceed with your day.”
Vera Nazarian
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 must be attained.
Marie Curie
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.
Jim Loehr
One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course; as long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket.
L. Ron Hubbard
Confidence, like art never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Grey Stevenson
Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!
Pablo
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
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Richard Kline
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.
Samuel Johnson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings
You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu
No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne
If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
Robert J. Ringer
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
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
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
Confidence is courage at ease.
Daniel Maher
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable
Bernard Kelvin Clive
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Johnny Unitas
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world we find
Success being with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
Walter D. Wintle
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: January 14, 2011
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Helen Keller
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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: 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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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 30, 2011
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 15, 2011
If I can see it, then I can do it, if I just believe it, there's nothing to it ... I believe I can fly.
R. Kelly
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