Sobriety famous quotes

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
-- Ace Frehley

#Believe #Yesterday #Sobriety

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Fall #Sobriety #Tree

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Hate #Sobriety #Feelings

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
-- Bill W.

#Spiritual #Sobriety #Doe

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.
-- Caroline Knapp

#Inspirational #Drinking #Sobriety

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
-- Chris Prentiss

#Inspirational #Book #Sobriety

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Sobriety #Stuff #Someday

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
-- David Brainerd

#Inspirational #Sobriety #Firsts

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today.
-- Dennis Eckersley

#Acceptance #Keys #Sobriety

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
-- Donal Henahan

#Piano #Sobriety #Missing

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Sobriety #Inability #Temperance

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Health #Sobriety #Capacity

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Sobriety #Risk #Moderation

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.
-- Frederick Exley

#Men #Drunk #Sobriety

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
-- Gary Busey

#Mean #Sobriety #Nightmare

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Sobriety #Clear #Harder

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Real #Sobriety #Religion

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.
-- J. Reuben Clark

#Honesty #Greed #Sobriety

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Sobriety

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
-- Jeremy Collier

#Giving #Sobriety #Satisfaction

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
-- Johann Hari

#Opposites #Addiction #Sobriety

something has been said for sobriety but very little.
-- John Berryman

#Beer #Sobriety #Littles

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
-- John Ciardi

#Drinking #Sobriety #Moderation

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
-- Judith Thurman

#Wine #Sobriety #Alcohol

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
-- Mary Docter

#Inspirational #Sobriety #Want

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
-- Mary Karr

#Inspirational #Dream #Sobriety

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.
-- Marya Mannes

#Sobriety #Musical #Passionate

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

#Fun #Recovery #Sobriety

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

#Inspirational #Sobriety

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
-- Mercedes McCambridge

#Reality #Years #Sobriety

I do not live in the world of sobriety.
-- Oliver Reed

#Sobriety #World

Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct
-- Polycarp

#Names #Sobriety #May

If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
-- Pope Pius XII

#Hard Work #Men #Sobriety

You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma
-- Rachel Wade

#Thinking #Perspective #Sobriety

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.
-- Richard Matheson

#Sobriety #Jagged Edge

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
-- Rob Lowe

#Wife #Sobriety #Campaigns

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
-- Rob Lowe

#Recovery #Addiction #Sobriety

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.
-- Rob Lowe

#Recovery #Sobriety

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
-- Robert Downey, Jr.

#Mistake #Recovery #Sobriety

You can't legislate sobriety.
-- Robert Zemeckis

#Inspirational #Sobriety

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
-- Sarah Kane

#Inspirational #Meaningful #Sobriety

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.
-- Stanton Peele

#Recovery #Sobriety #Purpose

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
-- Steve-O

#Inspirational #Thinking #Sobriety

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
-- Steve-O

#Inspirational #Sobriety #Focus

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
-- Steven Tyler

#Thinking #Sobriety #Trying

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
-- Thomas de Quincey

#Men #Alcohol #Sobriety

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.
-- Thomas Oden

#Sobriety #Pastor #Situation

I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
-- William Magee

#Sobriety #Liberty #Alternatives

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
-- William Penn

#Sweet Love #Children #Sobriety

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
-- William Penn

#Blood #Sobriety #Drink

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
-- William Rounseville Alger

#Drunk #Mad #Sobriety

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
-- Anthony Boucher

#Long #Sobriety #Masters

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
-- Kevin Sessums

#Sobriety #Judgmental #Bumper Sticker