Addiction Quotes

860 Addiction quotes by 627 unique authors

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. — Hunter S. Thompson
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I… — Hunter S. Thompson
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. — Gene Tierney
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever… — Eckhart Tolle
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in… — John Wayne
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. — Orson Welles
This dark diction has become America's addiction. — Kanye West
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. — Charlotte Whitton
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. — Bernard Williams
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. — Jonathan Winters
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having… — Judith Wright
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Emile Zola
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake. — Felix Dennis
Romantic love is an addiction. — Helen Fisher
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. — Thomas Fuller

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