“If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps.”
How It Works

“If we haven’t the will to do this [make amends], we ask until it comes. Remember, it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.”
Page 76, Into Action (Steps 8 & 9)

“Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given the strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.”
Page 79, Into Action (Step 9)

Related:

"Our drinking has made us slow to pay. We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them."
Page 78, Into Action, Step Nine

“Wait for the end of the spree, or at least a lucid interval. Then let his family or a friend ask him if he wants to quit drinking for good and if he would be willing to go to any extreme to do so.”
Page 90, Working With Others

“Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help.”
Page 95, Working With Others

The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track. Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted."
Page 98, Working With Others

“…many alcoholics, being warped and drugged, do not want to quit. But does he? Will he take every necessary step, submit to anything to get well, to stop drinking forever? ...

“After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.”
Page 142, To Employers

"On the third day the lawyer [Bill D., AA Number Three] gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator, and said he was perfectly willing to do anything necessary."
Page 158, A Vision For You

12 & 12

“We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us. [Obsession to drink]’
Page 24, Step 1

“We saw them meet and transcend their other pains and trials. We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor to incriminate. This was not only faith, it was faith that worked under all conditions. We soon concluded that whatever the price in humility we must pay, we would pay.”
Page 31, Step Two