Browsing Topic Best Alcoholics Anonymous Quotes

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

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.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Be careful what you pray for.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

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.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety – and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn’t just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

I want what I want when I want it.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

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

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.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I wouldn’t doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

I know why we’re here. We’re all here because we’re not all there.

Think of the solution, not the problem

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.