The document contains 20 quotes about overcoming addiction and obstacles. The quotes discuss themes of finding strength and determination through hardship, rebuilding one's life after hitting rock bottom, and achieving sobriety through changing attitudes, acquiring knowledge, and developing coping skills. Many of the quotes emphasize that overcoming challenges is a process that requires patience and taking things one step at a time through consistent effort.

1. Clarity Way

2.  Addiction is a painful reality for many. People who
suffer from addictions may feel hopeless or
abandoned, but they don’t have to. With the right
attitude and support along the way, any addiction can
be overcome. Here are 20 must-read quotes about
growth, determination and overcoming obstacles to
help you along the way.

3.  “You may feel stuck
with the crowd. You
may feel imprisoned by
the walls of addiction
and hopelessness. But
keep fighting. The
harder it gets, the
greater the rewards.”
 Center for Addiction
Recovery

4.  “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I
rebuilt my life.”
 J.K. Rowling

5.  “Recovery from addiction
requires hard work, a proper
attitude and learning skills
to stay sober, not drinking
alcohol or using other drugs.
Successful drug recovery or
alcohol recovery involves
changing
attitudes, acquiring
knowledge, and developing
skills to meet the many
challenges of sobriety.”
 Dennis Daley

6.  “The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate
balance between insight into one’s desire for escape
and abstinence from one’s addiction.”
 Debra L. Kaplan

7.  “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

8.  “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of
it.”
 Bill Cosby

9.  “It’s the constant and
determined effort that
breaks down all resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles.”
 Claude M. Bristol

10.  “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do
not let them master you. Let them teach you patience,
sweetness, light.”
 Helen Keller

11.  “You can come out of the
furnace of trouble two ways: if
you let it consume you, you
come out a cinder; but there is
a kind of metal which refuses
to be consumed, and comes
out a star.”
 Jean Church

12.  “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have
patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in
considering your own imperfections, but instantly set
about remedying them – every day begin the task
anew.”
 Saint Francis De Sales

13.  “All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not
realizing you already are what you are looking for.”
 Jon Kabat-Zinn

14.  “It is never too late to be
what you might have been.”
 T.S. Eliot

15.  “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

16.  “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.

17.  “What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are small matters
compared to what lies
within us.”
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.  “I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take
another step. If that is of no avail I will take another,
and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too
difficult… I know that small attempts, repeated, will
complete any undertaking.”
 Og Mandino

19.  “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be
no courage unless you’re scared.”
 Eddie Rickenbacker

20.  “What the caterpillar
calls the end, the rest
of the world calls a
butterfly.”
 Lao Tzu

21.  “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in
being able to remake the world… as in being able to
remake ourselves.”
 Mahatma Gandhi