Best Recovery Quotes for 2016

The New Year holds hope for everyone, and if you are in recovery, this is the best time to mark your new, better, positive, healthier, more productive, and sober life. Here are the best recovery quotes to help inspire you this coming 2016.

The New Year always brings an excitement, a rush, as we look forward to opportunities and better things ahead. The New Year holds a new chapter in our lives as well as a chance to correct past mistakes, move on from the past, and basically be better.

As 2016 approaches, we say goodbye to the past year and look forward to a better version of yourself and your life. And, if you are in recovery, this is your best chance to welcome the coming year with hope. To help inspire you, we have compiled 15 of the best recovery quotes for 2016.

Best Recovery Quotes for 2016

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde

“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.” — Patrick Overton

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” — Richard M. DeVos

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein

“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.” — Irish saying

“One resolution I have made, and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” — John Burroughs

“Year’s End is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” — Hal Borland

“The old year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!” — Edward Payson Powell

“Why shed tears on failures long forgotten when hope looms on the horizon?” — Charles Casha

“If it didn’t Bring you Joy,
Just Leave it Behind.

Let’s Ring in the New Year
With Good Things in Mind.

Let Every Bad Memory Go
That Brought Heartache and Pain.

And let’s Turn a New Leaf
With the Smell of New Rain.

Let’s Forget Past Mistakes
Making Amends for This Year.

Sending You These Greetings
To Bring you Hope and Cheer

Happy New Year!” — Anonymous

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” –Anonymous

“A new year is unfolding…like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.” — Anonymous

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” — Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“We spend January (1) walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives, not looking for flaws but for potential.” — Ellen Goodman

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain