Quotes with secret

  • Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
  • To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
  • To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
  • We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
  • The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
  • Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
  • Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
  • The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
  • Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Johnson Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Orwell It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Molière It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lin Yü-tang The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Mike Murdock The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
    Mike Murdock
    American singer-songwriter and televangelist (1946 - )
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
    Hannah Whitall Smith
     
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Barbara Windsor 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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