inspirational quotes about sobriety
40 Inspirational Quotes About Sobriety
Staying sober is given more importance today than anything else, because of the increasing cases of addiction. Buzzle has listed some inspirational quotes and sayings about sobriety that will surely help someone who wishes to quit.
Learn from the Stars!
There are several celebrities who did overcome their addiction. Stars like Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Angelina Jolie, Demi Lovato, and Daniel Radcliffe went to rehabs or found out their own ways to get sober. Not only that, they have stayed sober after that.Quotes and Sayings
"When you quit drinking you stop waiting."
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."
― Henry Ward Beecher
"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!"
― Habeeb Akande
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion."
― Pythagoras
"There is no better high than discovery."
― Edward O. Wilson
"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
"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
"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, No Regrets: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
"I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted."
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
"The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything."
― Matthew Perry
"The worst prison is in your own mind."
― Anonymous
"First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety."
― David Brainerd
"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
"There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety."
― Mary Karr
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
― John Ciardi
"My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love."
― Steve-O
"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
― Moliere
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
― Jeff Bridges
"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."
― Daniel Baldwin
"You can't legislate sobriety."
― Robert Zemeckis
"Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety."
― Gabriele Nanni
"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
"I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people."
― James Larkin
"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."
― Billy Joel
"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
"People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober."
― Tom Arnold
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
― Jean Kerr
"There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful."
― Sarah Kane
"It's a beautiful day to be sober."
― Anonymous
"I didn't even know I was addicted, until I tried to stop."
― Anonymous
"The chains of alcohol are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
― Anonymous
"Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you've got."
― Anonymous
"The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction."
― Debra L. Kaplan
"Waking up clean and sober is the first gift of every day."
― Anonymous
"We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it."
― CrimethInc., Anarchy and Alcohol
"Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down."
― Anthony Liccione
"Getting sober is a radically creative act."
― Meredith Bell, A Sober Year: Daily Musings on an Alcohol-Free Life
"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, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
"I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live."
― Joseph Meyering Sr.