Secret Quotes

500+ Sourced quotes

You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Robert Smith Surtees

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do!

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.

Eric Temple Bell

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

Dejan Stojanovic

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something outside ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus

It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Stephen E. Ambrose

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? — to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? — Nobody!

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About the Secret — Quick about it, Friend!
A Hair perhaps divides the False and True —
And upon what, prithee, may life depend?
L.

It matters not what goal you seek
Its secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty

To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise, and will not be rashly explained. Her secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives: he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

Theodor W. Adorno

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.