Top 100 Quotes About The Secret
#2. What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?
Jeremy Narby
#3. The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
Saul Bellow
#4. My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
Andrew Card
#5. The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are.
Bobbi Brown
#6. The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That's very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
Guy Kawasaki
#7. The secret of Steve was that he was never satisfied. He devoted his life to asking, "Why doesn't it work?" and "What should I change to make it work?
Kevin Ashton
#8. The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.
Jack LaLanne
#9. The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
Tony Snow
#10. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive.
Ann Patchett
#11. The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.
Rumi
#12. The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.
Jack White
#13. A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
Zephyr Teachout
#14. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
John Jackson Miller
#15. I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
Lee Child
#16. The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.
Robert Ferrigno
#17. Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#18. Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.
Bill Watterson
#19. You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.
Jennifer Worth
#20. The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
Robert Baden-Powell
#21. What if the Secret to Success is Failure?,
Paul Tough
#22. Every moment that's ever been, or ever will be, is gone the instant it's begun. So life is loss. And the secret of happiness is to learn to love the moment more than you mourn the loss.
Dan Baker
#23. Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
Charles Baudelaire
#25. I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
Frank Shorter
#26. Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
Adoniram Judson
#27. the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life's charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.
John D. Caputo
#28. What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.
Louis Fischer
#29. Quite suddenly, with blinding insight, the secret of their blissful marriage was revealed to me. She couldn't speak a word of English and he couldn't speak a word of Spanish.
Jennifer Worth
#30. Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#31. We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art.
Oscar Wilde
#32. The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
Bill Dedman
#33. I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
Robert Adams
#37. Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
Charles Krauthammer
#38. I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.
Notah Begay III
#40. The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards
#41. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
#42. True influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes ... the secret smile in the eyes of a friend
Thornton Wilder
#43. The secret of a holy life is not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Oswald Chambers
#44. They [stag's eyes] were moist and pink, which gave then a strangely intelligent mien--kind, sad eyes that seemed to carry with them the secret wisdom of the earth.
Christopher Scotton
#45. The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.
Bryant McGill
#46. Were not the autonomy of the individual the secret longing of many people it would scarcely be able to survive the collective suppression either morally or spiritually.
C. G. Jung
#47. The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude.
Ole Hallesby
#48. You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'
Rajneesh
#49. No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.
Elizabeth Strout
#50. Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.
Terry Blakeman
#51. The secret of success is before attempting anything, be very clear about why you are doing it. If you don't know your objective or the purpose behind your action, how can you possibly know if your actions are right?
Bohdi Sanders
#52. The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.
Russell Crowe
#53. it is true that both the Red Army and the secret police traditionally gave vodka to soldiers who were being asked to do dirty work: empty bottles are almost always found inside mass graves.
Anne Applebaum
#54. The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
Eugene Delacroix
#55. Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#56. The secret to catching your mistakes quickly is simple: treat outside information as if it were inside information. When someone tells you you're off track, don't look for reasons why they may be wrong; listen for reasons why they might be right.
Megan McArdle
#57. The secret to making money isn't working at a high-paying job, it's finding creative solutions to people's problems.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#58. The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!
Renzo Gracie
#59. He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.
Eleanor Brown
#60. Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.
Daniel Handler
#61. The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
Marcus Buckingham
#62. The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
Ann Romney
#63. Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually a book will make itself known.
Jeffrey Littorno
#64. The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!
Jaco Pastorius
#65. The flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#66. The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
Charles Dickens
#68. If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.
Lisa Birnbach
#70. Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
Dwight Schultz
#71. Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.
Mark Twain
#72. Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.
Lasse Viren
#73. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
Gabriela Mistral
#74. Love is the key, love is the secret.
Osho
#76. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
Hermann Hesse
#77. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
Elie Wiesel
#79. That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
Samuel Chadwick
#81. Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?
Michael Moorcock
#82. Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Voltaire
#83. The first was about the secret order from the FISA court compelling Verizon, one of America's largest telephone companies, to turn over to the NSA all the telephone records of all Americans.
Glenn Greenwald
#84. The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
Joan Didion
#85. In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousin
#86. Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? He
Steven Erikson
#87. The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
John Ruskin
#88. When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Thomas Southerne
#89. We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.
Andrew Murray
#90. Once, while visiting the continent, Spurgeon was asked about the secret of his ministry. After a moment s pause Mr. Spurgeon said, My people pray for me.
John Piper
#91. In my despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.
Frederick Buechner
#93. Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door.
Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.
Liz Kessler
#94. The secret to happiness: resist nothing and surrender everything.
Maximus Freeman
#95. In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.
Ram Dass
#96. The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.
John C. Maxwell
#97. The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.
Joyce Carol Oates
#98. Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather
#99. Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to your (day-to-day) process without being emotionally attached to your (day-to-day) results. Be emotionally engaged, but not emotionally attached.
Hal Elrod
#100. Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.
Bill Farrel
