12 Step Quotes:

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

topic: Procrastination, Firsts, Steps, New Projects, Pushing On

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

topic: Failure, Trying, Formulas, Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Step

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

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. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

What goes around, comes around.

- Willie Nelson

source: Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

topic: Karma, Respect, Revenge, Married With Children, Hurting Someone

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Larry Winget

topic: Thinking, Think Of Me, Anon, None Of Your Business, 12 Step

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

- Tori Amos

source: Song: Big Wheel, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

topic: Jesus, Recovery, Needs, Big Book, Just For Today

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

- Bill W.

topic: Believe, Alcohol, Sanity, 12 Step, 12 Step Recovery

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

- Catherine DeVrye

topic: Motivation, Path, Obstacles, Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Step

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

- Albert Belle

source: Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.15, ECW Press

topic: Motivation, Attitude, Recovery, 12 Step, 12 Step Recovery

I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really thick book. They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that. ... For me that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing.

- Reginald Arvizu

topic: Powerful, Crazy, Book, 12 Step

I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Thinking, Needs, Steps, Anon, 12 Step

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

- Nikki Sixx

topic: Recovery, Path, Steps, 12 Step

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Gambling, Six, Steps, 12 Step

I'll go through all of [12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the election], but a sample: Volunteer to fight Islamaphobia. Join the ACLU. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Take down sexism and misogyny. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism.

- Tucker Carlson

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Fighting, People, Volunteer, 12 Step

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

- Bucky Sinister

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Christian, Mean, Recovery, 12 Step, 12 Step Recovery

I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.

- Susan Cheever

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Thinking, Talking, Rehab, 12 Step

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

- Zachary Cole Smith

topic: Thinking, Bullshit, Empowering, 12 Step, Empower Yourself

I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.

- Bucky Sinister

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Attitude, Believe, Thinking, 12 Step

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

topic: Support Groups, 12 Step, 12 Step Recovery, Non Fiction

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

- Terry Moore

topic: Food, Chocolate, Steps, Yummy, Sweets And Desserts

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

- Tucker Carlson

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Writing, People, Support, Darfur, Mogadishu

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Believe, Years, Might, 12 Step