Secret Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Wish, Life Is

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.10

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• The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Effectiveness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

  A. C. Benson

  Happiness, Labor

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• The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Advice, Burden, Troublesome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

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• The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Wisdom, Character

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• Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

  Honore de Balzac

  Simple, Men, Realizing

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• Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Years, Ironic, Needs

  J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Running, Art, Love Is

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• From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.

  Paul Billheimer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Self, Perspective

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Everyday

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• The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Pain, Differences

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 29, 2010

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• Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to your (day-to-day) process without being emotionally attached to your (day-to-day) results. Be emotionally engaged, but not emotionally attached.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Goal, Want

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• A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

  Ellen Key

  Marriage, Ties, Secret Love

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• When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Meditation, Upset

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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Men, Order

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

  Horace

  Battle, Doe, Accomplish

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  Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Prayer

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin

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  He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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