Thoughts of Addiction Quotes in English With Images

Watch your thought; 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

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men?  private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

- Plutarch

it established by the mere repetition of the act.  Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction.  The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.

- Edwar O. Sisson

We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.

- J. Todd Ferrier

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires.  What you do in life depends upon what your are and what you want.  What you get from life depends upon how much you want it? how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources.  The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day.  Make the cables strong!

- L. G. Elliott

In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli.  Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education.  But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically.  Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.

- Edward O. Sisson

We' re worn into groves by Time by our habits  In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his ay in dispatching the affairs of every day.  By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement.

-Frank B. Gilberth

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gain sin strength.  At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it son binds us with chains of steel.

- Tyron Edwards

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

-Bruce Barton

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

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

Addiction Quotes List

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

- Hannah More

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

- Tallulah Bankhead Quotation

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

- A Quotation From Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

- Allan Bloom

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

- Ken Faver

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

I don't do drugs.  I am drugs.

- Salvador Dali

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

-Lane Olinghouse

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in American are now illegal.

- Thomas Szasz

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison and drugs are really expensive in prison.

- John Hardwick

I've never had a problem with drugs.  I've had problems with the police.

- Keith Richards

He does not need opium.  He has the gift of reverie.

- Anais Nin

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

-Buddha

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Franklin P. Jones

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

-Micik Jagger

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

- Samuel Johnson

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.

-Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. 

- Robert Orben

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

-Franklin P. Jones

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

- Tom Wilson

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

- Mark Twain

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

- Unknown

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

-Anonymous

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

- Leo Aikman

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

- Thomas Fuller

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

-Irene C. Kassorla

A habit is a shirt made of iron.

- Czech proverb

Habit: The shackles of the free.

- Ambrose Bierce

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

- St. Augustine

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

- Spanish proverb

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

- M.K. Gandhi

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

-Unknown

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 *

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

- Mark Twain

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

- Francois Due de La Rochefoucauld

Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

-Harvey Fierstein

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

- John Morley

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

- Shakti Gawain

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

- Jean Guitton

Men weary as much of no doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

-Eric Hoffer

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

- Julius Charles Hare

Thought lead on to purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

-Tryon Edwards

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

- Mortimer Caplan

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

- Sydney Smith

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

- Jean Cocteau

Habits change into character.

- Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

- Addiction Quotes in English by William Shakespeare Download or Share Images

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

- Addiction Quotes by Publilius Syrus Download or Share Images

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

- Addiction Quotes in English by Vince Lombardi Download or Share Images

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellent then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle Download or Share Images

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

- John Dryden Download or Share Images

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

- Addiction Quotes by Ivan Illich Download or Share Images

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

- Wayne W. Dyer Download or Share Images

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

- Benjamin Franklin Download or Share Images

Our sickness is between our ears.

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 dab, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

- Carl Jung

Here is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men.  Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

- Martin H. Fischer

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

- W.H. Auden

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

- Anonymous

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or Morphine or Idealism.

- Carl Gustav Jung

You can turn back on a person but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

- Hunter S. Thompson

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

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. 

- Michel de Montaigne

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

- Ann Landers

Half of the modern [pharmaceutical] drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

- Martin Henry Fischer

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

- Frank A. Clark

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

- Somerset Maugham

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

- Feodor Dostoevski

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.

- Roger L'Estrange

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.  There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

- Shirley Chisholm

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself.  It wasn't society…it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor.  It was al my doing.

- Ray Charles

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 need to search was within.

- Ramona L. Anderson

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.  It 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 Thoughts

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

- Oscar Wilde

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts.  The question "Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?" should never be asked.  It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

- William S. Burroughs 1914 - 1997

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell.  There's no solitary confinement outside of jail.  A Habit is hell for those you love.  and in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

- Billie Holiday Thoughts

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs of strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

- C. E. Montague

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 Thoughts

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name… The French city.. had represented the opium stage of the addiction.  With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

- James Fenton

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

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

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

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

- Clarence Day

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable.  I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that My peers have as well.

- Frankz Kafka

The weapons addiction of all our political leaders … has the same characteristics as drug addiction.  It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating - all on a scale far greater than drug addiction.

-Howard Zinn

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

- Rob Stampfli

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

Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

- Friedrich Nietzsche