From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... confidence.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
2.
... confidence.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
There was utter confidence.
3.
... confidence.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
4.
... confidence.
BB p.75,
Into Action
5.
... confidence.
BB p.114,
To Wives
6.
... confidence and
comfort in the laughter and ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We can be the ones who take on
the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the
coffee and cake after the meetings, where so
many skeptical, suspicious newcomers
have found confidence and comfort in the laughter
and talk.
7.
... confidence and
faith in these people who ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same kind of
confidence and faith in these
people who have been infected and sometimes
crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?
8.
... confidence and
fill me with conflict?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict?
9.
... confidence began
to be replaced by cocksureness.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
10.
... confidence, but
it didn't fully solve the ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
11.
... confidence, can
you adopt the attitude that ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the subject of
confidence, can you adopt the
attitude that so far as you
are concerned this will
be a strictly personal
matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?
12.
... confidence, he
felt it right to explain ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
As he gained confidence, he
felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.
13.
... confidence how
helpful he can really be, ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
When your mission is carefully explained,
and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence
how helpful he can really
be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
14.
... confidence in
dad is rising high.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
15.
... confidence in
him, and his temperament and ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and his
temperament and problems are close to your
own, then such a choice will be good.
16.
... confidence in
his ability to recover?
BB p.143,
To Employers
17.
... confidence in
his power to stop or ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
18.
... confidence in
our ability to think?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
19.
... confidence in
our anonymity promise was severe.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
When such stories got into circulation outside of A.A., the loss of confidence in our anonymity promise was severe.
20.
... confidence in
our future.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that gives
people their high confidence in our future.
21.
... confidence in
the integrity of Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
Approving editorials here and abroad generated a wave of confidence in the integrity of Alcoholics Anonymous.
22.
... confidence in
the one with whom you ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence in
the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
23.
... confidence is
born, and the sense of ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.
24.
... confidence; it
was the child of our ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
25.
... confidence laid
the explosive facts in their ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
26.
... confidence of
another alcoholic in a few ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly
armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.
27.
... confidence; that
he fully understand and approve ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve
what we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.
28.
... confidence that
he is at last on ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having found the shoes that
fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.
29.
... confidence, their
reliance upon things human, their ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly
difficult to solve.
30.
... confidence to
another person, but we are ...
BB p.78,
Into Action
We have already admitted this in confidence
to another person, but we
are sure we would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.
31.
... confidence was
no good whatever; in fact, ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as alcohol is concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability.
32.
... confidence we
had admitted these things to ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we
had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being.
33.
... confidence, we
were apt to play the ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
34.
... confidence when
others fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
35.
... confidence would
be shaken.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
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