12 Step Recovery Quotes:

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

- David Bowie

topic: Clever, People, Spirituality, Inspirational Recovery, 12 Step Recovery

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

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

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

- Spencer Johnson

topic: Life, Change, Letting Go, 12 Step Recovery

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Tasks, Environment, Behinds, Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Step Recovery

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Meeting, Darkroom, 12 Step Recovery

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Today, Pandas, Inspiration And Life

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

- Marian Diamond

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

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

- Mark Twain

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

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

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: Trust, Faith, Belief, Spiritual Faith, Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

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

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

- Max Lerner

topic: Two, Evil, Ethics, Lesser Evil, Two Evils

Be careful what you pray for.

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

topic: Recovery, Fate, Praying, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovering

What people think of you is none of your business.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012

topic: Life, Missing You, Recovery, None Of Your Business, Stop Caring

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

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Weed, House, 12 Step Recovery

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

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

- Catherine DeVrye

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

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

- Ze Frank

source: "The Show". Short video program, www.zefrank.com/theshow/, May 4, 2006.

topic: Thinking, People, Reminders, None Of Your Business, Stop Caring

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Larry Winget

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

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'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