Sobriety Quotes - Page 2

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

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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.

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

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

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

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.

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

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.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

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.

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

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

If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

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.

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

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.