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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONFIDENCE occurs
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1.
... 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
Though
experience had made him
skeptical, he
finished
his
treatment with
unusual confidence.
4.
... confidence.
BB p.75,
Into Action
Most people
approached in this way will be
glad to
help; they will be
honored by our
confidence.
5.
... confidence.
BB p.114,
To Wives
We make this
recommendation with some
confidence.
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
Some
time passed, and
confidence began to be
replaced by
cocksureness.
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
Family confidence in
dad is
rising high.
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
Can you have every
confidence in his
ability to
recover?
17.
... confidence in
his power to stop or ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
Show him you have
confidence
in his
power to
stop or
moderate.
18.
... confidence in
our ability to think?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Did we not have
confidence in our
ability to
think?
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
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
But in the
beginning,
anonymity was not
born of
confidence; it was the
child
of our
early fears.
25.
... confidence laid
the explosive facts in their ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
The
oldest member summoned two others, and in
confidence laid the
explosive facts in their
laps.
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
Thus
blinded by
prideful self-
confidence, we were
apt to
play the
big shot.
34.
... confidence when
others fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
You can
secure their
confidence when others
fail.
35.
... confidence would
be shaken.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The
moment that
happened, our
Fellowship's
confidence
would be
shaken.
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