Quotes and Sayings About Sobriety

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