All Quotes

The secret of happiness is something to do.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
‐‐ F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
‐‐ V. S. Pritchett

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
‐‐ Daniel Gilbert

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
‐‐ Joan Collins

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
‐‐ Al Capp

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
‐‐ Luther Burbank

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
‐‐ Humphrey Lyttelton

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
‐‐ Tony Snow

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
‐‐ James Taylor

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
‐‐ Henry Moore

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
‐‐ Alfred Lunt

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
‐‐ Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is my hairspray.
‐‐ Richard Gere

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!
‐‐ Simon Cowell

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
‐‐ Lefty Gomez

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

The secret of success is sincerity.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
‐‐ Edward Felten

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
‐‐ Robert Orben

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
‐‐ Mike Murdock

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
‐‐ Kate Grenville

The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
‐‐ Roberto Bolano

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
‐‐ Tyrone Hayes