28+ Best Sober Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational sober quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

Famous Sober Quotes

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. – Sir William Hamilton

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities. – Vance Havner

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

To live sober is to die countless times! – Veena Malik

Now i am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love. – Rumi

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

When you quit drinking you stop waiting. – Caroline Knapp

The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. – Benjamin Franklin

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. – William Butler Yeats

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it’d die of remorse on the third. – Malcolm Lowry

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. – Hannah More

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high! – Habeeb Akande

A sober mind, an unemotional heart and a positive attitude are key for success. – Pinkie Numa

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I’ve ever done and will ever do in my life. – Jamie Lee Curtis

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober. – Bill Burr

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting. – Peter O’Toole

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

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life. – Bernard Sumner

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus. – Ozzy Osbourne

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. – Hannah More

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. – Ace Frehley

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me. – Mary Karr

It looks different when you’re sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture. – Neil Simon

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day. – Vaclav Havel

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter. – H. L. Mencken

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. – Aristotle

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. – Martin Van Buren