Quotes About Sobriety

I'm not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

Two days before she went to New York, Jacaranda stopped drinking.

abstemiousness

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but it can also become a terrible drug. The way it is used in our world is probably one of the great evils of our day. It is a self-inflicted impediment that springs from "a man taking a drink, a drink taking a drink, and drink taking the man." Distilled liquors as we have them today were unknown in Bible times.12

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].

Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength.

The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

NO MANDES MENSAJES CUANDO ESTÉS BORRACHA

After match, in WWE, I do not drink alcohol. I just drink a lot of water.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

For this reason, temperance was an important component in the Progressive movement's effort to improve the lives of the working class.

To this day, the percentage of abstainers in the United States—about one-third of the adult population—is, along with Ireland's, the highest among Western nations.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.