Secret Quotes

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

~ Amit Kalantri

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.

~ Michael Bernard Beckwith

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

~ Umberto Eco

The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.

~ Robin Hobb

The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

~ Will Advise

There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

Why?' He asked.'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.

~ Michelle Hodkin

She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn't know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head. She tried to keep it dry. She didn't want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she'd swim away.

~ Erika Swyler

No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.

~ Toba Beta

The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must find out your gifts and talents.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to be great, you must learn the secret of great men.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

~ Alberto Manguel

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.

~ Tyler Hamilton

No one is born with fear: we learn it, create it, and perpetuate it. Therefore, fear's biggest secret is we also control it.

~ Ken Poirot

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart’s hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors.We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.

~ Azar Nafisi

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

~ Ann Voskamp

Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing

~ Sunday Adelaja

All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,But for the moment, I really just need some space.

~ Margo T. Rose

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

~ Liane Moriarty

If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

People that say they have nothing to hide, can’t be trusted with your secrets.

~ Danny Mekić

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

~ Toba Beta

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

~ Wilfred Owen

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

~ Toba Beta

People have always expected the end of the world to be a dramatic, thematic event: war, disease, a sudden explosion. But what if the end of the world has already occurred? What if our final demise happened slowly, secretly … and we’ve been oblivious to it all?

~ Caroline George

There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.

~ Toba Beta

I am wealth, prosperity, and abundance. God multiplies this and I give thanks I AM receiving more and more money everyday.

~ Ron Barrow

A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.

~ David Eddings

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana