Top 215 Recovery Quotes

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.
Max Baucus
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that’s bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple senses of what treatment could look like.
Leslie Jamison
I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn’t touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.
Ronnie Montrose
Because of my struggles and my work, I have the unique ability to be a bridge between the NYPD and our communities, restoring confidence and accountability in policing that is essential to our recovery.
Eric Adams
The five patients in ‘Rethinking Cancer’ share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
Parker Posey
I moisturise my feet every day with Scholl Dry Skin Instant Recovery Cream, a non-greasy cream which leaves my feet feeling soft and supple instantly.
Laura Whitmore
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren’t before you were injured.
Gabrielle Giffords
I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.
Dorothy Denning
Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.
Antonis Samaras
In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided ‘recovery funds’ that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs – just here in North Carolina.
Jim Hunt
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.
Billy Corgan
Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bob Beauprez
Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his chin up and exhorted American businesses to work hard and produce an economic recovery?
Lawrence Kudlow
Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.
Christiaan Barnard
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe’s recovery, Europe’s prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.
Mo Ibrahim
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck
Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.
Sam Graves
Nothing on ‘Relapse’ and very little on ‘Recovery’ was produced by me.
Eminem
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
John Major
Some of the United States’ enemies now assume, perhaps rightly, that we hate each other so much that we’d sooner collaborate with them than do the difficult work of listening to each other. It doesn’t need to be this way – but national recovery won’t come from Washington. It has to start with you.
Ben Sasse
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
Valerie Jarrett
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn’t know very well. They didn’t know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.
Ivan Moody
The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of injury and recovery, something I volunteered for that they didn’t ask for.
Kyle Carpenter
After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default – there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a ‘miracle.’
David Wong
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
Craig Brown
I haven’t fallen that much, but when I have, it’s usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
Damian Woetzel
We’re all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.
Cathy Engelbert
The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is for

The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is forcing unwarranted higher energy costs upon Americans and further threatening an already sluggish economic recovery.
Luther Strange
What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, ‘You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people’s lives, that’s something to talk about.’
Nikki Sixx
Honestly, I just try to take care of my body as much as possible: eating, recovery, just making sure that I’m always on top of staying healthy and making sure my body is 100 percent throughout the season.
DeAndre Jordan
I supported the American Rescue Plan because it recognized we need a comprehensive approach to our economic recovery.
Alex Padilla
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion – between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
Hannah Kearney
We pride ourselves on preparing well and genuinely. It’s quite easy to brush over the small details, your recovery, the little one percenters. There are so many little things that add up to the performance.
Beauden Barrett
As our city and country begin the long, rocky road of recovery from COVID, we still must avoid the pitfalls of another deadly public health crisis: gun violence.
Eric Adams
It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.
Chester Bennington
There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after – during the Great Recession. We’ve had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy’s recovered.
Janet Yellen
Recovery Friendly Workplaces are an opportunity for New Hampshire to help change the culture around addiction by engaging employers in being a proactive part of the conversation by providing tools, resources, and opening up access to treatment.
Chris Sununu
When I fought in The Ultimate Fighter Finale, I had microfracture surgery, and that’s usually eight month’s recovery turnaround. I had to fight three months after that, and I fought three months after that. And I had to train through that with that.
Kamaru Usman
Transitions don’t always go smoothly; you need a recovery process.
Louis DeJoy
Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.
Travis Bradberry
Recovery is really important.
Ana Ivanovic
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil’s life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn’t too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson
My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.
Michael Ashcroft
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off – your experience of life is more intense.
Maryam D’Abo
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
Sam Graves
After a tough match, I’ll do an ice bath, and that’s really good for recovery because it helps circulation. Sometimes you feel really swollen.
Ana Ivanovic
There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.
Michael Spence
The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
Lael Brainard
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I’ve worked with a lot of people who’ve gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it’s a big damn deal.
Mary Gauthier
It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.
Alex Zanardi
Usually in the evenings, I go for a one-hour road session for a gentle recovery road ride. It’s a really steady stint with the main focus being to loosen the body down.
Chris Hoy
It’s been a long time in recovery. It’s the first time I’m in this position, the first time I have any major injury. So it’s been tough for me mentally.
Bojan Bogdanovic
I think in a lot of ways, ‘The Shining’ is about alcoholism and ‘Doctor Sleep’ is actually about recovery. They go together pretty well that way.
Mike Flanagan
A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you’re already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.
Gracie Gold
Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that’s how I move.
Nonito Donaire