Recovery Quotes and Slogans

1. You never have to use again
2. Live your life with an attitude of gratitude
3. Easy Does It
4. One Day at a Time
5. Drugs gave me wings then they took my sky away 
6. It is called alcohol-ism not alcohol-wasm
7. Never along, never again
8. I was the black sheep of my family until I came to NA and found the rest of my flock
9. Give us 90 meetings in 90 days and if at the end of that you are not fully satisfied we will gladly refund your misery 
10. Insanity = Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results 
11. Insanity = Doing the same thing over and over again, knowing the outcome yet doing it anyway 
12. I may not always know God’s will but I will always know what God’s will is not
13. It's really simple. The only thing you have to change is everything
14. KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid (or Keep It Simple Silly)
15. If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got 
16. If you want to change who you are change what you do
17. If you hang out at a barbershop long enough you are going to get a hair cut
18. Change your people, places and things
19. Old playgrounds and playmates get you into trouble
20. I used to be a hopeless dope fiend now I am a dopeless hope fiend 
21. I went from dealing dope to dealing hope (David Stoecker)
22. People who judge don’t matter and people who matter don’t judge 
23. Holding a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die 
24. The world record is 24 hours 
25. Don’t quit before the miracle happens 
26. I can’t, God can so let Him 
27. I looked to a drug for courage and it made me a coward 
28. You are either working on recovery or working on a relapse 
29. If you are not working on the solution you are working on the problem
30. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution
31. My mind is a scary place to be all by myself 
32. Your best thinking got you here
33. My pickers are broken
34. Addicts suffer from a condition called first thought wrong  (Mark Lundholm)
35. I wouldn’t trade my worst day sober for my best day high 
36. I may not be where I want to be but thank God I’m not where I was 
37. Being humble doesn’t mean we think less of ourselves, it means we think of ourselves less 
38. Pride is who is right while humility is what is right
39. Give all your problems to God. He’ll be up all night anyway 
40. I’m allergic to drugs and alcohol. Every time I use I break out in handcuffs and felony charges 
41. People may not always believe what I say but they will always believe what I do 
42. I stopped counting the days and started making the days count 
43. It is not what I know that keeps me sober, it is what I do that keeps me sober
44. What happened in the past is over. You can’t unscramble scrambled eggs 
45. You can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber
46. 7 Days without a meeting makes one weak
47. There is no elevator, you have to take the steps
48. I only drank on special occasions, like the grand opening of a pack of cigarettes
49. While I am sitting in this meeting my addiction is out in the parking lot doing push ups
50. HALT - Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired
51. HALT - Hear, Assess, Listen then Talk (Mark Lundholm)
52. My drug of choice was more
53. Relapse is part of the program (Good intentions but one of the worst sayings ever)
54. Your Higher Power can be a door knob (Good meaning but a horrible saying)
55. I didn't like NA. After all, I had lost a lot of good friends to NA
56. Addiction is Cunning, Baffling and Strong 
57. Addiction ends in Jails, Institutions and Death 
58. Drugs are bad, M'kay.......
59. The only thing I only did halfway was the steps
60. How do I know I need to go to a meeting? When I don't want to go to one
61. Attitudes are contagious. Always make sure yours is worth catching
62. If you don't drink you won't get drunk
63. Suit up and show up don't shoot up and throw up