From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... ambition?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
2.
... ambition, and
leadership.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.
3.
... ambition has
no place in A.A.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
4.
... ambition is
not what we thought it ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
5.
... ambition is
the deep desire to live ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
6.
... ambition that
I double-crossed and undercut my ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
7.
... ambition to
win the battle of life.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
As to our grandiose behavior, we insisted
that we had been possessed of nothing but a high and legitimate ambition to win the battle of life.
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