164 and More on all your devices
... Learn More
From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BETTER occurs
97 times
[62 in BB ... 35 in 12&12]
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
Click a book cover icon

to view the Big Book or 12&12 chapter, or Grapevine text
1.
... better.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
2.
... better.
BB
Into Action, p.75
We
thank God from the
bottom of our
heart that we
know Him
better.
3.
... better?
BB
Into Action, p.86
What could we have
done better?
4.
... better.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
If his
own doctor is
willing to
tell him that he is
alcoholic, so
much the
better.
5.
... better.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
The
more hopeless he
feels, the
better.
6.
... better.
BB
To Wives, p.109
He
admits this is
true, but is
positive that he
will do
better.
7.
... better.
BB
To Wives, p.120
8.
... better.
BB
To Employers, p.141
If you are
sure your
man does not
want to
stop, he may as
well be
discharged, the
sooner the
better.
9.
... better.
BB
To Employers, p.147
So, for
one reason or
another, they
cover these
men,
hoping matters will take a
turn for the
better.
10.
... better.
12&12
Step Two, p.30
11.
... better.
12&12
Step Three, pp.37-38
12.
... better.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
Sure, it's
ethical, but what
we've
got won't
run on
ethics only; it has to be
better.
13.
... better able
to understand Him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there
now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly
better able to
understand Him.
14.
... better and
happier.
12&12
Step Ten, pp.89-90
15.
... better, and
his wife would leave him ...
12&12
Tradition Five, pp.151-152
He
shouts that if his
partner would
treat him
better, and his
wife would
leave him
alone, he'd
soon solve his
alcohol problem.
16.
... better, and
resolve with God's help to ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
17.
... better, as
everyone should have a clear ...
BB
To Wives, p.112
You
think he
ought to
know the
subject better, as
everyone should have a
clear understanding of
the
risk he
takes if he
drinks too
much.
18.
... better as
he tried to improve his ...
12&12
Step Eleven, pp.104-105
19.
... better attitude
toward him, we are still ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
It may be he has
done us
more harm than we have
done him and,
though we may have
acquired a
better attitude toward him, we are
still not too
keen about
admitting our
faults.
20.
... better basis,
since the former did not ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
If their
old relationship
is to be
resumed it
must be
on a
better basis, since the
former did not
work.
21.
... better be
found out right away.
BB
To Wives, p.120
If not, it had
better be
found
out right away.
22.
... better be
postponed, when possible, to times ...
12&12
Step Ten, pp.90-91
23.
... better bet.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
24.
... better, by
as direct contact as possible.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
25.
... better Catholics."
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
26.
... better chance
of getting what we really ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
27.
... better chance
of understanding and accepting what ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
More often than not, it is
imperative that a
man's
brain be
cleared before he is
approached, as
he has then a
better chance of
understanding and
accepting what we have to
offer.
28.
... better chance
that the head of the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
29.
... better do
one thing supremely well than ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.150
30.
Better do
one thing well than many ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Five), p.10
31.
... better do
some Twelfth Step work.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
32.
... better do
Thy will.
BB
How It Works, p.63
Relieve me of the
bondage
of
self, that I may
better do
Thy will.
33.
... better for
him to feel fully responsible.
BB
To Employers, p.143
It is
better for him to
feel fully responsible.
34.
... better for
us than some of our ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
There was
actually a
time
when the
press of
America thought the
anonymity of
A.A. was
better for us than some of
our
own members did.
35.
... better get
his brand of spirituality while ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
He may
tell mother, who has
been
religious all her
life, that she doesn't
know what
it's all about, and that she had
better get his
brand of
spirituality while there
is
yet time.
36.
... better go
to Canada.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
He had
plenty of
money left and
thought I had
better go to
Canada.
37.
... better hang
on to it.
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
But you had
better hang on to
it.
38.
... better. Having
a better time."
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a
serious drinker,
being dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
39.
... better, however,
that one does not needlessly ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
It is
better, however, that
one
does not
needlessly name a
person upon whom she can
vent jealousy.
40.
... better husbands
and fathers than ever before.
BB
To Wives, p.108
Today most of our
men are
better husbands and
fathers than
ever before.
41.
... better idea
of how you ought to ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
You
will thus get a
better idea of how you
ought to
proceed.
42.
... better if
placed in such physical condition ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
43.
... better in
order to keep our balance.
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
44.
... better, it
is usually safe to talk ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
As
soon as we
begin to
feel confident in our
new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that
we are
indeed changing for
the
better, it is
usually safe to
talk in
complete frankness with
those who have been
seriously
affected,
even those who may be only a
little
or not at all
aware of what we have
done to them.
45.
... better job
of living than he has.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
She
naturally feels that
for
years she has
made a
far better job
of
living than he has.
46.
... better jobs
when we deserved them; we ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
47.
... better leave.
BB
To Wives, p.108
If you are
positive he is
one
of this
type you may
feel you
had
better leave.
48.
... better life
is when lived on a ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
49.
Better men
than we are using it ...
BB
Into Action, p.85
Better men than we are
using it
constantly.
50.
... better motive,
had we not worshipfully beheld ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
And then, with a
better motive, had we not
worshipfully beheld the
sunset, the
sea, or a
flower?
51.
... better motive
than to be secure and ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
And how
often we
work hard with
no better motive than to be
secure and
slothful later on -- only we
call that "
retiring."
52.
... better next
time, but I might as ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
As the
whisky rose to my
head I
told myself I would
manage better next time, but I might as
well get good and
drunk then.
53.
... better philosophy
of life were sufficient to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
54.
... better position.
BB
To Employers, p.146
55.
... better practical
use of it.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
56.
... better qualified
to handle it.
12&12
Step Ten, p.90
57.
... better realization
of the gravity of the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.103
58.
... better researcher,
educator, personnel officer, then why ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.171
59.
... better return
and continue my work.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
When I
got the
fog out of my
brain, I
decided that
quitting school was
very foolish and that I had
better return and
continue my
work.
60.
... better self.
BB
To Wives, p.108
You can
see that he
really does
love you with his
better self.
61.
... better taught
in religious matters than I.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
No doubt you're
better taught in
religious matters than I.
62.
... better than
anything we could have planned.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
When we
look back, we
realize that the
things which
came to us when we
put ourselves in
God's
hands were
better than
anything we could have
planned.
63.
... better than
gold.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
64.
... better than
most of my fellow drinkers, ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
65.
... better than
the best he had ever ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Then he had, in
effect, been
raised from the
dead,
suddenly taken from the
scrap heap to a
level of
life better than the
best he had
ever known!
66.
... better than
the way you were."
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
Anything is
better than the
way you were."
67.
... better that
he have no relapse at ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
Though it is
infinitely
better that he have
no relapse at all, as has been
true
with
many of our
men, it is by
no means a
bad
thing in some
cases.
68.
... better, the
doctor might suggest a visit ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
When your
man is
better, the
doctor might
suggest a
visit from you.
69.
... better things.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
70.
... better things.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
It had
picked itself up with a
laugh and
gone on to
better things.
71.
... better things
tomorrow will be the permanent ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
72.
... better things,
we believe we will be ...
BB
How It Works, p.70
If we are
sorry for what we have
done, and have the
honest desire to
let God take us to
better things, we
believe we
will be
forgiven and
will have
learned our
lesson.
73.
... better time."
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a
serious drinker,
being dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
74.
... better to
comfort than to be comforted, ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
At these
critical moments, if we
remind ourselves that "it is
better
to
comfort than to be
comforted, to
understand
than to be
understood, to
love than to be
loved," we
will be
following the
intent of
Step Eleven.
75.
... better to
forgive than to be forgiven.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
He
thought it
better to
give comfort than to
receive it;
better to
understand than to be
understood;
better to
forgive than to be
forgiven.
76.
... better to
give comfort than to receive ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
He
thought it
better to
give comfort than to
receive it;
better to
understand than to be
understood;
better to
forgive than to be
forgiven.
77.
... better to
let our friends do this ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.181
Obviously,
A.A. had to be
publicized somehow, so we
resorted to the
idea that it
would be
far better to
let our
friends do this for us.
78.
... better to
let our friends recommend us.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
We
feel it
better to
let our
friends recommend us.
79.
... better to
let our friends recommend us.
12&12
Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
We
feel it
better to
let our
friends recommend us.
80.
... better to
let someone outside the family ...
BB
To Wives, p.113
In some
cases it may be
better
to
let someone outside the
family present the
book.
81.
... better to
meet God alone than with ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
But it is
better to
meet God alone than with
one who might
misunderstand.
82.
... better to
risk it.
BB
Working With Others, p.90
The
family may
object to
this, but
unless he is in a
dangerous physical condition, it is
better to
risk it.
83.
... better to
take those risks than to ...
BB
Into Action, p.80
84.
... better to
understand than to be understood; ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
He
thought it
better to
give comfort than to
receive it;
better to
understand than to be
understood;
better to
forgive than to be
forgiven.
85.
... better understand
the alcoholic.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
86.
... better understanding
all around.
BB
To Wives, p.115
87.
... better understanding
all around.
BB
To Employers, p.137
88.
... better use
everyday language to describe spiritual ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
89.
... better way
of life will emerge when ...
BB
To Wives, p.117
A
better way of
life will emerge when they are
overcome.
90.
... better way
-- we think so.
BB
How It Works, p.68
Perhaps there is a
better way -- we
think so.
91.
... better, we'd
be all right.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We
firmly believe that if
only they'd
treat us
better,
we'd be all
right.
92.
... better we'd
like it.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
93.
... better, when
possible, to stick to our ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
We
find it
better, when
possible, to
stick to our
own stories.
94.
... better without
its "God nonsense."
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
95.
... better. Work
better. Having a better time."
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a
serious drinker,
being dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
96.
... better work
with another alcoholic instead!
BB
Working With Others, p.102
But if you are
shaky, you had
better work with
another alcoholic instead!
97.
... better, you
may feel this feeling rising.
BB
To Employers, p.139
Even when you
understand
the
malady better, you may
feel this
feeling rising.
The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site
are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).
Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the
164 and More concordance does not in any way imply
affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc. Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A.
Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the
164 and More concordance.
Top
Copyright © 2005-2019, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.