Quotes about Sobriety

In the end it's not the flashy and flamboyant who survive. It is those with steady hands and sober minds.

When we got clean, we could do things other people couldn't—like help other addicts and alkies get sober. We could be as good as we'd been bad. We were useful; there was a place for us in the world. It had been fun to get high, but it was even more exciting to get sober. We believed in recovery. We believed in people. We believed in life, and we believed in God. There was a revolution going on. "For a while it was Camelot," a friend said.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race. Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

Addicts and alcoholics will tell you that their recovery began when they woke up in pitiful and degraded enough shape to take Step Zero, which is: Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"This shit has got to stop.

In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea—and this was before e-mail.

The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.