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Quotes About Secret

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course. Popular demand was intense, but they steadfastly refused. The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.
~ Russell Hoban
the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.
~ Ruth Reichl
She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?
~ Soren Kierkegaard
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is that we would rather be crippled by what we lack than risk the pain that is one potential consequence of placing our secret selves in others' hands...to take delight in being loved requires nerve. The Other Side of You
~ Sally Vickers
An old, secret pain welled up in him, begging for healing.
~ Salman Rushdie
America's secret identity wasn't a superhero. Turns out it was a supervillain.
~ Salman Rushdie
You can't keep a devil locked up in the attic and expect to keep it to yourself forever.
~ Salman Rushdie
By embracing the inescapable, I lost my fear of it. I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with a stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against
~ Salman Rushdie
I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.
~ Vladimir Putin
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
~ Bram Stoker
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
~ George Washington Carver
Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.
~ Kyuzo Mifune
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
~ Percy Ross
I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
~ Carlos Santana
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
~ John Churton Collins
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
~ Akio Morita
Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.
~ Joseph Losey
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.
~ Paul Davies
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
~ Lawrence Durrell, Justine
this is the secret of my conduct towards you. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
~ Alexandre Dumas
For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The secret name sounded like glass, something broken and strange
~ Alice Hoffman