Secret Quotes - Page 6

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

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Pleasure, Cease

  1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.

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• Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Taught, Secrecy, Starting

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• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Fake People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your
  ass in the chair.

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Ass, Chairs

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• The secret of making progress is to get started.

  Mark Twain

  Progress

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

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• The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moving, Reading, Lips

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• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Choices, Life Is

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

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Like You

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• If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Showers, Ifs

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• What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Funny Harry Potter, Dungeons

  "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 26, 1997.

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• Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

  Dennis Miller

  Growing Up, Groups, My Family

  "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Achievement, Aim

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• Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Adversity, Fire, Ink

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• I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

  William Congreve

  Knows

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 3, sc. 3

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• It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Crazy, Careers, Given

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• Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret speeches that she does not want to reveal under any circumstances to the public. I wonder why.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Years, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

  Sherman Alexie

  Ethnicity, People, House

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Past, Legacy

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vain, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love Is, Men, Misunderstood

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.

  Nick Offerman

  Beautiful, Hiding, Ask Me

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Rift, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.50, BookBaby

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

  Saadi

  Men, Faults, Malice

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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