Richard Bach Quotes

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

When faced without a challenge, make one

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

The only person I can amaze is me.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.