Quotes on Secret

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!