Sobriety Quotations

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.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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

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

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.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

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

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.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

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

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.

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.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

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

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

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.

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

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.

I strongly appeal to our people and my supporters to exercise sobriety and calm and to refrain from any act of violence in whatever protest action they seek to undertake against the present administration,

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.

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.

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

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.

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

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?

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

We have several check points scheduled across the state - both drivers license and equipment check points as well as sobriety check points.

It was a tough quarter, but a lot of funds are still up for the year. A little sobriety never hurts.

(The officer) noticed slurred speech. He noticed that his eyes were glassy, appeared to be glazed over. So, he requested Mr. Wetzel do a field sobriety test. Mr. Wetzel did portions of a field sobriety test and he did also refuse to do portions of the test as well.

exercise sobriety and calm and to refrain from any act of violence.

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.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

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.

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.

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

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

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

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

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

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.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not to contend with others on account of their faith, or systems of religion, but pursue a steady course. This I delivered by way of commandment; and all who observe it not, will pull down persecution upon their heads, while those who do, shall always be filled with the Holy Ghost; this I pronounced as a prophecy, and sealed with hosanna and amen.

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

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

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.

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.

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.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

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.

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

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

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.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

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.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

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.

You can't legislate sobriety.

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

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

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

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

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

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

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

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.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

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

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.