Quotes from Bill Wilson

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

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.

You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Let us always love the best in others—and never fear their worst.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, although for the moment you do not see.

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.

To the world you may be one person, but to that one person you may be the world.

So we need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.

I'm more affected than ever by that sweet and powerful aura of the church; that marvelous spiritual essence flowing down by the centuries touches me as no other emanation does, but when I look at the authoritative layout, despite all the arguments in its favor, I still can't warm up. No affirmative conviction comes.

To the world you may be one person, to one person you may be the world.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.