If you’re an entrepreneur, then you know that there are times when it feels like you can’t take it anymore. You’re constantly working and you don’t see any end in sight. That’s why it’s important to have a collection of recovery quotes to help get you through those tough times. Here are some of our favorite quotes about recovering and getting back up.

1. My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it. — Sigmund Freud

2. We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time. — Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

3. Something I’ve been starting to use almost every day is a blood flow restriction system for my legs. It’s good for recovery and strength. — Sue Bird

4. Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs — Nancy Pelosi

5. Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds. — Steve Maraboli

6. I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. — Paul R. Ehrlich

7. I’m making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web. — Matthew Perry

8. Recovery feels like shit. It didn’t feel like I was doing something good — it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.

9. I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others! — Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

10. Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength. — Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

11. The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams

12. No one has any idea what’s next… the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it’s delaying the recovery. — Steve Wynn

13. Courage consists of the power of self–recovery. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. I’m making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web. — Matthew Perry

15. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s. — Shannon Kopp, Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life

16. It’s just like an alcoholic to think he’s doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong. — Michele W. Miller, The Thirteenth Step: Zombie Recovery

17. Something I’ve been starting to use almost every day is a blood flow restriction system for my legs. It’s good for recovery and strength. — Sue Bird

18. Recovery is not about being right; it’s about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. — Melody Beattie

19. In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. — Nancy Pelosi

20. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short–term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long–term. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

21. Something I’ve been starting to use almost every day is a blood flow restriction system for my legs. It’s good for recovery and strength. — Sue Bird

22. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short–term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long–term. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

23. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — J. K. Rowling

24. This disappointing data, five years into an economic recovery, underscores the need for a new effort to modernize our country’s safety net programs. — Paul Ryan

25. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — J. K. Rowling

26. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short–term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long–term. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

27. When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn’t let the dog in the recovery room. — Sandy Nathan, Numenon

28. This disappointing data, five years into an economic recovery, underscores the need for a new effort to modernize our country’s safety net programs. — Paul Ryan

29. We need to be prepared for a really long recovery. — Rick Perry

30. Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both. — Robert Ludlum

31. Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength. — Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

32. I’m making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web. — Matthew Perry

33. Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity — Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life

34. It’s just like an alcoholic to think he’s doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong. — Michele W. Miller, The Thirteenth Step: Zombie Recovery

35. The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams

36. The winds of tribulation blow out some men’s candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds. — Roger Stark, The Waterfall Concept

37. There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc. — D.S. Mashego

38. He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. — Miguel De Cervantes

39. Openness is essential for development and progress. it also holds the key to post–covid economic recovery. — Tim Cook

40. There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light. — Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

41. Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity — Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life

42. The fact is, we’ll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. — Ronald Reagan

43. There’s really only one true path to recovery that’s using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality). — Nikki Sixx

44. My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones, wishing the injured a quick recovery. authorities are providing all possible assistance at the site of the tragedy. — Narendra Modi

45. There’s really only one true path to recovery that’s using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality). — Nikki Sixx

46. Faith to challenge equals recovery. When you learn to challenge your situation God speaks. — Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

47. Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs — Nancy Pelosi

48. There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light. — Rob Lowe

49. To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. — Mitch Mcconnell

50. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s. — Shannon Kopp, Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life

It is important to remember that recovery is a process, and that it takes hard work and dedication to achieve. We hope that these quotes have inspired you to take the steps necessary to make a positive change in your life. No matter how big or small, every step towards recovery is worth taking.