Secret Quotes

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

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.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

The secret is to be awake.To be awake is everything.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.