Secret Quotations

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

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

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

There is no limit to the power of loving.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.

To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.

It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don't live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don't have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

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

My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

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 the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one.

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

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

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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.

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each of whom, when they read my book, feels at home in it. So I write for those readers. It's almost a sense of writing for a specific person, but it's a specific person who I don't know.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.