A.A. Slogans

On the Walls:

How it Works:

90/90 - Ninety meetings in ninety days
A.A. will work if you want it to work.
All you need to start an A.A. meeting is a resentment and a coffee pot!
Bring the body and the mind will follow.
Don't compare - identify, don't intellectualize - utilize.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
It works -- it really does!
It’s a lifelong process: it’s called alcohol-ISm, not alcohol-WASm!
It's the first drink that gets you drunk.
Keep coming back.
Nothing is so bad, that drinking won't make worse.
One drink is too many and thousand not enough.
Poor me... Poor me... Pour me a drink!
Stay away from the First Drink.
The 12 Steps are how it works; the 12 traditions are why it works.
The first step is the only step you can work perfectly.
The time to attend a meeting is when you least feel like going.
Trust god -- Clean house -- Help others
We all have another drunk left in us but we don't know if we have another recovery in us.
We die to live.
We give it away to keep it.
We suffer to get well.
We surrender to win.
When all else fails, the directions are in the book (Alcoholics Anonymous).
Willingness is the key.
You are not required to like it, you're only required to DO IT.

Acronyms & Bacroynms:

Makes You Think:

A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with the first step.
Alcoholism is an equal opportunity destroyer.
Anger is just one letter away from danger.
Faith is spelled a-c-t-i-o-n.
Fear is the dark room where negatives are developed.
I drank too much, too often, and too long.
If I think, I won't drink. If I drink, I can't think!
It isn't the load that weighs us down -- it's the way we carry it.
It takes time to get better.
Look for similarities rather than differences.
Minds are like parachutes -- they won't work unless they're open.
Remember your last drunk.
Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Stay sober for yourself.
The 7t's - Take Time To Think The Thing Through
The elevator is broken -- use the 'Steps.'
The opposite of forgiveness is resentment.
The road to sobriety is a simple journey for confused people with a complicated disease.
This is a selfish program.
To make it last, keep sobriety first!
We can be positive that our drinking was negative.
We're all here because we're not all there.
When a person tries to control their addiction they have already lost control.
When your head begins to swell your mind stops growing.
Where ever you go -- there you are.
You are not alone.
You can't give away what you don't have.

One Day At a Time:

Act as if...
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Before engaging your mouth, put your mind in gear!
Change is a process, not an event.
Count your blessings.
Easy does it, but do it.
Every day is a gift. That’s why we call it the 'present.’
Formula for failure: Try to please everyone.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Keep an open mind.
Keep coming back. It works - if you work it!
Let go of old ideas.
Live in the now.
My worst day sober is better than my best day drunk.
Practice an attitude of gratitude.
Recovery is an education without a graduation.
Respect the anonymity of others.
Share your happiness.
Share your pain.
Sobriety is a journey... not a destination.
Stick with the winners.
Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.
Take what you can use and leave the rest.
The person with the most sobriety at a meeting is the one who got up earliest that morning.
There are two days in every week which we have no control over - yesterday and tomorrow. Today is the only day we can change.
To keep it (recovery), you have to give it away.
To thine own self be true.
Try to replace guilt with gratitude.
Use the 24-hour plan.
We are only as sick as our secrets.
What goes around, comes around.
When wallowing in your self-pity - get off the cross! We need the wood.

Higher Power:

Backsliding begins when knee-bending ends.
Courage is faith that has said its prayers.
Expect a miracle!
Faith is our greatest gift; sharing it with others our greatest responsibility.
Faith without works is dead!
Fear is the absence of faith.
Get out of the driver's seat.
God answers "knee mails."
God will never give you more than you can handle.
I came - I came to - I came to believe
I can't... He can... I think I'll let him (Steps 1,2,3)
If God seems far away, who moved?
Possibilities and miracles are one in the same.
Remember nothing is going to happen today that you and God can't handle.
Spirituality is the ability to get our minds off ourselves.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.
There is a God and I’m not Him!
There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.
Turn it over, the results are in God's hands.
We're responsible for the effort - not the outcome!
When we surrender to our higher power, the journey begins.

Sponsors:

Be nice to newcomers... One day they may be your sponsor.
Before you say: “I can't,” say “I'll try.”
Call your sponsor.
Call your sponsor before, not after, you take the first drink.
Decisions aren't forever.
Don't drink, don't think, read the Big Book, and go to meetings.
Don't quit 5 minutes before the miracle happens.
Have a good day unless of course you have made other plans.
Help is only a phone call away.
If I serve, I will be served.
It's in the book.
Make use of “telephone therapy.”
More will be revealed.
Some of us are sicker than others.
Sponsors: have one -- use one -- be one.
The road to sobriety is a simple journey for confused people with a complicated disease.
When you are a sponsor, you get out of yourself.
You received without cost, now give without charge.
Your Big Book is your sponsor too.







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