Sobriety Quotes

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.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

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

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

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.

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.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

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.

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

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

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

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

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.

Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.

You can't legislate sobriety.

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

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

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

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

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.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

Sobriety is love of health,
or inability to eat much.

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

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

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

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to 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.

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.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

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

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

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

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

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.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.