Quotes About Sobriety

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

without the pot affecting his judgment.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

The only time I tried alcohol my hangover lasted for days, and I decided never again.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.

The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

No soy una enamorada, soy una tonta

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Hays was thinking of Prohibition, "which had by no means produced the era of national sobriety its proponents had contemplated.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal.