Success Quote by Richard Bach

Bach’s line has the friendly snap of a fortune cookie, then slips in a sharper challenge: your “secret” isn’t hidden, it’s just inconvenient to admit. The first move, “Ask yourself,” relocates authority from gurus and systems to the reader’s own interior ledger. That’s classic Bach, whose fiction (Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions) treats self-knowledge as the only real plot twist. The subtext is mildly accusatory: you already know why things are working; you’re just reluctant to make it your rule.

The second sentence does the real work. “Listen to your answer” implies the truth arrives quickly, almost uninvited, before you can varnish it with respectable narratives. It’s not “think,” it’s “listen” - a cue that the answer is less a strategy than a confession. Maybe your success comes from showing up early, or from obsessive repetition, or from asking for help, or from quitting faster than others. Bach’s phrasing expects the response to be simple, even boring. The ego wants a myth; the quote wants a habit.

Then comes the sting: “practice it.” Not celebrate it, not post it, not optimize it. Practice is unglamorous, embodied, daily. In an era that sells success as a personality trait or a hack, Bach pushes a quieter ethic: the edge you’re looking for is already in your behavior. The intent isn’t inspiration; it’s compliance. If you want the result, submit to the process you’ve already proven works.