William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

William Griffith Wilson

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• Revolutionary
• Sobriety
• Outlook

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Individual

• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Nothing
  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Information
  • Outlook

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Humility

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Individual
  • Dialogue

• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Movement
  • Revolutionary
  • Communist

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Sobriety

• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Sobriety

• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Future
  • Outlook

• Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.

  

  William Buckland
  • Happiness
  • Individual
  • Natural

• Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.

  

  William Arthur Dunkerley
  • Giving
  • Knows
  • Shows

• My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Not Good Enough

• My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

  

  Noah Gray-Cabey
  • Friends
  • College
  • Drive

• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Things
  • Darkness
  • Created

• We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Individual
  • Revolutionary
  • Sobriety