The Secret Quotes

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to START living the life of your dreams.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

The secret of passion is purpose.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .