Quotes About Sobriety

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

If you can't hold your drink, don't

Also I mostly stop doing drugs, which feels extra grown up. Not in any twelve-step kind of way. I simply couldn't take the hangovers anymore.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

where wine enters, smartness goes away...

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

My body wasn't something to be starved or cut or filled with booze until I blacked out; it was something to be taken care of.

Ralph's people in Washington were not as bad as he had always thought. The drunkard had found God a week after a Fourth of July and had said good-bye to the bottle for good. Washington was good to the old man's bones.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety

Protestant princes believed the Gospel their ministers taught and valued the moral order, sobriety, and social cohesiveness their churches fostered. All sides usually rubbed along well enough.

Nothing is easier than to sit, like Father Matthew,[17] in the seat of judgement and condemn drunkenness, while you are yourself intoxicated with sobriety;

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

I think I've improved in a lot of ways because of being able to stay clean and sober.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I don't want to look out and perform in front of people who are drunk. I did that when I was playing little clubs.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.