Getting Sober Quotes

• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Christian, Drinking

  Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

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  The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Successful, Thinking, Sober

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• 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

  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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• I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Recovery, Thinking, Sober

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

  Steven Wright

  Life, Positive, Success

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• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

  William Saroyan

  Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Get off the cross, we need the wood.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Recovery, Needs

  Song: Big Wheel, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Cheer Up, Army

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Memories, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

  Eminem

  People, Appreciate, Addiction

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

  Louis Jordan

  Drunk, Use, Sober

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• Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Done, Sober

  "'It's Time for a Change'". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

  Macklemore

  Rap, Starting Over, Example

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• I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

  Steven Adler

  Depressing, Tired, Sick

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