Top 69 Quotes About Alcoholics Anonymous

#1. Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.

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#2. We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone.

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#3. Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Zig Ziglar

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#4. It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.

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#5. There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.

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#6. It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

Bill W.

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#7. Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it.

Alexandra Engellmann

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#8. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.

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#9. I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die

M.T.

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#10. I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Marianne Williamson

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#11. 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

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#12. I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.

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#13. We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives.

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#14. How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?

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#15. A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes - a

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#16. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

John Cheever

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#17. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.

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#18. They sound like the philosophy of a man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he cannot feel the ache.

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#19. Definition of an alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex

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#20. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.

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#21. ...one of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals to meet their behaviors.

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#22. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

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#23. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work.

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#24. I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

Steven Tyler

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#25. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

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#26. I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.

Roseanne Barr

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#27. The program works, if you work it.

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#28. When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Clive James

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#29. What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#30. I want what I want when I want it.

Eric Cantor

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#31. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.

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#32. Not my will, but my heart's will.

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#33. My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Mercedes McCambridge

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#34. To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed - have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking.

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#35. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.

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#36. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Chris Prentiss

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#37. The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking

Liz Hemingway

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#38. Not only had I been off guard,

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#39. Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.

Chris Prentiss

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#40. My name is Kevin James Breaux and I am an author. Why does that always sound like I am introducing myself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting?

Kevin James Breaux

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#41. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.

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#42. As one of my early A.A. sponsors used to say, I didn't hang out with lower companions - I had become one.

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#43. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

Stephen Covey

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#44. The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen

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#45. Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

Harry Browne

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#46. I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

Paula Poundstone

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#47. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.

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#48. If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.

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#49. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

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#50. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.

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#51. I gave alcohol everything I had

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#52. Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better - day by day.

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#53. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.

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#54. The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.

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#55. I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

Scott Stapp

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#56. To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude.

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#57. 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

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#58. One day at a time.

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#59. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.

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#60. No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.

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#61. My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on ... parole. And lithium.

Christopher Titus

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#62. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'

Subliminal messaging works!

Nick Jimbanis

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#63. I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.

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#64. When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.

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#65. Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.

David Foster Wallace

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#66. I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

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#67. Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions, relationships - at least the relationships that demanded any work.

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#68. People help themselves by trying to help others, and this is the process that helps alcoholics get sober and stay that way. Love and tolerance of others, as stated on page 84 of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the "code" of living that is suggested to AA members.

Mel B.

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#69. For in meditation, debate has no place.

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