Getting Sober Quotes:

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

source: "'It's Time for a Change'". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

topic: Done, Sober, Getting Sober

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

- Robert Collier

source: Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Success, Effort, Pushing On, Inspiring Business

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

- Herman Melville

source: Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Drinking, Cannibal, Sober Up

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

source: North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Self Determination, Inspiration And Motivation

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Funny, Witty, Clever, Alcoholism, Irish Beer

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.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Successful, Thinking, Sober, Getting Sober, Being Sober

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

- Gary Oldman

topic: Inspirational, Children, Recovery, Pivotal, Addicts In Recovery

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

- Steven Wright

topic: Life, Positive, Success, Witty One Liners, Dilbert

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

- William Saroyan

source: "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

topic: Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Wisdom

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Afraid Of Life

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

- Tori Amos

source: Song: Big Wheel, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

topic: Jesus, Recovery, Needs, Big Book, Just For Today

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Food, Drinking, Men, Alcoholism, Irish Beer

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Courage, Cheer Up, Army, Accepting Reality, Getting Sober

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

topic: Pain, Memories, Vices, Intoxicated, Bad Memories

It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

- Eminem

source: Source: www.rapbasement.com

topic: Getting Sober

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

- Louis Jordan

topic: Drunk, Use, Sober, Getting Sober

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

- Macklemore

topic: Rap, Starting Over, Example, Getting Sober

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

- Steven Adler

topic: Depressing, Tired, Sick, Feeling Down, Being Sick