When you go for Sobriety, it is very likely that you will be all over the internet looking for inspiration, I know I was even long before I succeeded. I expect that I will do more of these posts because sometimes a few sentences or quotes about sobriety said over in your mind through self talk can be the difference between you and that first drink and therefore can be key to continued sobriety also.
The quotes about sobriety herein are just some to hopefully help inspire you and come from my own comments (mostly on Instagram), some well known folk and some unknown folk but in any case I hope you like them:
20 Motivational Quotes About Sobriety Including 8 of My Own
“They say a change is as good as a rest, but imagine if you could change and rest? That’s what happens when you quit alcohol, you rest your body and you change your life for the better”
– Me
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has”
– Epictetus
“Its funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can’t get to me at all. Its time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through, no rights, no wrongs, no rules for me, I’m free” (yes this is from Frozen)
– Kristen Anderson Lopez & Robert Lopez
“Being sober has to come first so that everything else I love in life doesn’t have to come last”
– Unknown
“Human Beings are made of stronger stuff than we think, and you can do it. You can do it because you have already survived all the shit addiction threw at you, so recovery is a walk in the park. Stay positive. You are worth it”
– Me
“I like saying to 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
“ Sometimes your life does turn to nappy rash, but we can bounce back and give a finger to the doubters, know it all’s, egotists, power crazed bosses, gossips, killjoys and just plain ring pieces of the world and say… Do you know why, I know what’s best for me because I’ve lived a bit and learnt from the experience and yes, it was a wild ride”
– Me
“I’m sober not boring”
– Unknown
“Getting up sober on a Monday morning is easy, it makes you smile. Getting your 12-year-old son up for school? Different story!”
– Me
“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
“Not drinking alcohol is a life choice I have made and does not mean I am boring. However, it does mean that I might want to leave a party early rather than listen to you talk rubbish and pour more Ethanol down your neck! If it bothers you then maybe we don’t need each other in our lives”
– Me
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
“You wake up everyday to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that my love, is bravery”
– Unknown
“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
“If this is your first weekend being sober then grab hold and hang tight. Tell the wine witch and the demon to get lost and take some YOU time and at the end of Sunday you will feel like your own personal Hero”
– Me
“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, a month or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right and the power within to grow. No apologies”
– Unknown
“Sobriety comes when romanticising about alcohol and the good things you will miss is changed to romanticising about the good things you will get from ditching alcohol”
– Me
“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 honour my commitment to stay sober.”
– Tom Arnold
“If you cannot change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails a little bit”
– Me
“If the grass is greener on the other side. Water your grass”
– Unknown
Please keep up with the self talk, listen to advice and try and filter the relevant bits out that work for you. If you want to read more quotes then check out my previous Sobriety Quote or follow this link.
Take care…. Darren
