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Top 30 Bill W. Quotes (2025 Update)

Bill W. Quote: “Pain is the touchstone of all growth.”

1. “Pain is the touchstone of all growth.”

Bill W. Quote: “God is either everything, or He is nothing.”

2. “God is either everything, or He is nothing.”

Bill W. Quote: “In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.”

3. “In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.”

Bill W. Quote: “Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.”

4. “Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.”

Bill W. Quote: “AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.”

5. “AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.”

Bill W. Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Bill W. Quote: “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.”

7. “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. Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Bill W. Quote: “Nothing matters more to AA’s future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.”

9. “Nothing matters more to AA’s future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.”

Bill W. Quote: “I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.”

10. “I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.”

Bill W. Quote: “The good is the enemy of the best.”

11. “The good is the enemy of the best.”

Bill W. Quote: “How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.”

12. “How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.”

Bill W. Quote: “Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.”

13. “Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.”

Bill W. Quote: “No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it.”

14. “No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it.”

Bill W. Quote: “We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual...”

15. “We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual...”

Bill W. Quote: “Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.”

16. “Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.”

Bill W. Quote: “More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor.”

17. “More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor.”

Bill W. Quote: “We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.”

18. “We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.”

Bill W. Quote: “For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.”

19. “For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.”

Bill W. Quote: “Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.”

20. “Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.”

Bill W. Quote: “Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.”

21. “Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.”

Bill W. Quote: “Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.”

22. “Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.”

Bill W. Quote: “Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.”

23. “Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.”

Bill W. Quote: “I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.”

24. “I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.”

Bill W. Quote: “We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.”

25. “We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.”

Bill W. Quote: “We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.”

26. “We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.”

Bill W. Quote: “Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.”

27. “Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.”

Bill W. Quote: “In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.”

28. “In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.”

Bill W. Quote: “Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.”

29. “Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.”

Bill W. Quote: “I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.”

30. “I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.”

Bill W. Quote: “Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.”

31. “Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.”

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