The Secret Quotes

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

I tell my wife all my secrets.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.

The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Secrets are the currency of intimacy

There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.