TOP 50 AA QUOTES

1. When you've got one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, you can only piss on today.

2. Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

3. My basic problem is that I flee from those who want me and I pursue the rejecters.

4. I've never done anything in moderation -- except maybe these steps.

5. What other people think of you is none of your business.

6. I've found that you can not save your ass and your face at the same time.

7. You are not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for your behavior.

8. Sponsoring yourself is like using unskilled labor.

9. An alcoholic without a sponsor is like leaving Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

10. Nervousness is just God trying to share the truth out of you.

11. By drinking to someone else's health, you are ruining your own.

12. If God is your co-pilot, SWITCH SEATS!!!

13. If you want what you've never had, you must do what you've never done.

14. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

15. Winners do what they have to do and losers do what they want to do.

16. If you like everyone in AA, you're not going to enough meetings!

17. People didn't recruit me for this program, alcohol did; and I might add: a fine job it did.

18. The healthy person finds happiness in helping others. Thus, for him, unselfishness is selfish.

19. Most alcoholics would rather die than learn anything about themselves. In fact, they do.

20. Insanity is not doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and knowing full well what the results will be.

21. I don't know who God is, but when I look in the mirror I know who he ain't!

22. Your mind is a very dangerous neighborhood, don't go there alone!

23. Welcome to the largest organization in the world that no one wanted to be a member of.

24. Being an alcoholic is like having sex with a 1,000 lb. gorilla... your not done till it is.

25. At some point in my life, I told God to go to hell, but He stayed where He was and I went there instead

26. You can't believe in God and play God at the same time

27. You can't live one way and pray another

28. We're all here because we're not all there.

29. Keep coming back. It works if you work it, and it sucks if you don't.

30. If 'God' scares you out, Jim Beam will scare you back in.

31. For every meeting, there are three meetings: (1) The meeting before the meeting, (2) the meeting, and (3) the meeting after the meeting. Attend all three meetings.

32. Go to meetings until you WANT to go to meetings. Then go to meetings.

33. Beware of HALT! (H)ungry, (A)ngry, (L)onely, (T)ired

34. RTFM: (R)ead (T)he (F)reaking (M)anual.

35. You've got to give it away to keep it.

36. If you feel like drinking.... put the chip in your mouth and when it melts you can drink.

37. If you want, you can sit on your pity pot but eventually you have to get up and flush or you are gonna drink.

38. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

39. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and look at whom you're trying to impress.

40. This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA.

41. If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

42. I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.

43. When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.

44. How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

45. If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough to be God!

46. If you want to quit drinking, you are going to have to quit drinking.

47. I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic.

48. Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go away.

49. You don't have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don't want to get well, you ARE sick.

50. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.