Bill Wilson Quotes

#1. The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Susan Cheever

#2. Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

William S. Wilson

#3. There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

Susan Cheever

#4. The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he'd been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.

Kandi Steiner

#6. There is nothing in this world that belongs to us in an absolute sense,

Jose Saramago

#7. And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Thomas F. Wilson

#8. Let us always love the best in others - and never fear their worst.

Bill Wilson

#9. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.

Bill Wilson

#10. The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

Michael Gove

#11. Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

Bill Milkowski

#12. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Bill Wilson

#13. When I'm about Rick James, it's all about get out there and kill 'em.

Rick James

#14. three of us who worked together on this book. When Bill Craig of LifeWay

Selma Wilson

#15. If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.

Carol S. Dweck

#17. Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

Bill Wilson

#18. This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

Charles August Lindbergh

#19. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Bill Wilson

#20. I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

Drew Carey

#21. Let Go and Let God...

Bill Wilson

#22. You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.

Bill Wilson

#23. You only get hurt that badly when you're doing something that matters.Something impossible.Taking a risk.Investing yourself.And ball's worth it,the rush you get, the exhilaration...

Allison Parr

#24. Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

Bill Wilson

#25. I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

Shakira

#26. I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Tom Cruise

#27. Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

Tommy Lee Jones

#28. If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Paul McCartney

#29. Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.

Bill Wilson

#30. Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions.

Ashwin Sanghi

#31. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.

Bill Wilson