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SUCCESSFUL   occurs   19 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... successful.   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in which we are highly elated because we seem to have been successful.


2.
... successful.   BB p.123, The Family Afterward   Go to page 123 in the Big Book
They remember when father was romantic, thoughtful and successful.


3.
... successful and happy business career.   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


4.
... successful approach to that age-old public health ...   BB p.571(573), Appendix IV, The Lasker Award   Display entire Appendix IV
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."


5.
... successful business man, it is Fred.   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
If ever there was a successful business man, it is Fred.


6.
... successful, but I have never been successful ...   BB p.27, There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
With many individuals the methods which I employed are successful, but I have never been successful with an alcoholic of your description."(*)


7.
... successful consummation.   BB p.25, There Is A Solution   Go to page 25 in the Big Book
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.


8.
... successful flight at Kitty Hawk.   BB p.51, We Agnostics   Go to page 51 in the Big Book
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.

9.
... successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.


10.
... successful, he cannot fool himself about values.   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values.


11.
... successful in business and had retired, he ...   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business and had retired, he would not touch another drop.


12.
... successful in his enterprise, he would have ...   BB p.153, A Vision For You   Go to page 153 in the Big Book
Had he been successful in his enterprise, he would have been set on his feet financially which, at the time, seemed vitally important.


13.
... successful in licking my other personal problems, ...   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.


14.
... successful in solving your own domestic problems, ...   BB p.100, Working With Others   Go to page 100 in the Big Book
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished.


15.
Successful readjustment means the opposite.   BB p.122, The Family Afterward   Go to page 122 in the Big Book
Successful readjustment means the opposite.

16.
... successful than anybody in the business.'   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
You can become a lay therapist, and more successful than anybody in the business.'


17.
... successful where you men failed.   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.


18.
... successful with alcoholics if you do not ...   BB p.95, Working With Others   Go to page 95 in the Big Book
You will be most successful with alcoholics if you do not exhibit any passion for crusade or reform.


19.
... successful with an alcoholic of your description."(*)   BB p.27, There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
With many individuals the methods which I employed are successful, but I have never been successful with an alcoholic of your description."(*)


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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