Richard Bach Quotes

Richard Bach (Writer, born 1936). Below are 46 quotes by Richard Bach from QuotePlace, each as a text quote card.

Writer · born 1936

Richard Bach is an American writer best known for the bestselling novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions (1977). A former Air Force pilot, his work often combines flying with spiritual themes.

Quotes by Richard Bach

1.Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours.
2.In order to win, you must expect to win.
3.The simplest things are often the truest.
4.To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
5.Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
6.Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
7.The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
8.In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
9.You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
10.Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
11.If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
12.Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
13.Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
14.Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
15.Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
16.Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
17.Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
18.Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
19.Learning is finding out what you already know.
20.Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
21.The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
22.Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
23.To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
24.Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
25.I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
26.The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
27.Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
28.What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
29.You teach best what you most need to learn.
30.Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
31.You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
32.An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
33.Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
34.If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
35.Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
36.Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
37.Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
38.Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
39.The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
40.Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
41.If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
42.Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
43.You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
44.You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
45.We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
46.The gull sees farthest who flies highest.

Richard Bach Quote Gallery

An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. — Richard Bach
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
Richard Bach
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. — Richard Bach
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. — Richard Bach
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
Richard Bach
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. — Richard Bach
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. — Richard Bach
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Richard Bach
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly! — Richard Bach
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
Richard Bach
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