Addiction Quotes 3

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone."
Source Unknown

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P. J. O'Rourke

"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine."
Rob Stampfli

"Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?"
Anna Quindlen

"I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?"
Ken Faver

"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
Bertrand Russell

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
Peter McWilliams

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen R. Covey

"Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous."
Source Unknown

Addiction Quotes 2

"All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal."
Thomas Szasz

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
C.S. Lewis


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher


"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
Anais Nin

"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug."
Maynard James Keenan

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."
Jacob M. Braude

"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
Jean Cocteau

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Franklin P. Jones

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body."
Thomas Szasz
Franklin P. Jones

Addiction Quotes 1

"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
Spanish proverb

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
Ramona L. Anderson

"A habit is a shirt made of iron."
Czech proverb


"Our sickness is between our ears."
Source Unknown

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
Frank Outlaw

"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
Aldous Huxley

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation"
Wystan Hugh Auden

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Jung

Quotes On Achievement 7

"For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world."
John Winthrop

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."
Marilyn Monroe

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."
Alan Lakein


"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results."
Mark Victor Hansen

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
Mal Pancoast

"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
Thomas Edison

"What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!"
Danny Devito

"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
Albert Einstein

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."
Albert Einstein

Quotes On Achievemnet 6

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
Lady Stella Reading

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
A. P. Gouthey

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Otto Rank

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
George Fabricius

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
Marilyn Monroe

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results."
Napoleon Hill

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
Margaret Thatcher

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
Golo Mann

Quotes On Achievemnet 5

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."
Phaedrus

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
Zig Ziglar

"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"
Henry David Thoreau

"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
C. Hoppe

"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do."
Thomas Edison

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."
Anthony Robbins

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
E. E. Cummings

Quotes On Achievement 4

"I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."
Barbara Walters

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
Alfred A. Montapert

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"
Simone Weil

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
Charles F. Kettering

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon Hill

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch