Top 455 Secret Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Secret Quotes from famous people such as Shonda Rhimes, Zoe Lister-Jones, Garry Trudeau, Brian K. Vaughan, Catherine Helen Spence, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I’m just telling a story.
Shonda Rhimes
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It’s a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
Zoe Lister-Jones
In any event, it’s not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
Garry Trudeau
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
Brian K. Vaughan
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Catherine Helen Spence
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
Taylor Swift
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
Bryant H. McGill
It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
Al Franken
But I don’t only get recognized for ‘Friday the 13th.’ I was on a TV show called’ I’ve Got a Secret.’ I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.
Betsy Palmer
I definitely keep myself secret.
Leona Lewis
I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you.
Joan Blondell
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don’t need any rules.
Gary Gygax
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying ‘He’s out there again.’
Bas Rutten
I’ve a secret desire to be a tradie really. I wouldn’t mind taking time out to do a carpentry course.
Aaron Pedersen
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’
Joey Adams
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
‘The Secret’ is sorta teaching me how to think positively, try to take the negative thoughts out of of my brain.
John Collins
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan
The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization.
Joss Whedon
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt Disney
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Frances Burney
It’s no secret that I’ve been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Edward Sapir
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
John Dalberg-Acton
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
Robert H. Schuller
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who’s making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Dee Dee Myers
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and r

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That’s my secret weapon.
Mike Love
When I was asked to take part in ‘Celebrity Hunted’ I jumped at the chance, who wouldn’t want to run wild around the U.K. for two weeks being chased by a top secret service type team, whilst raising money for a cause very close to my heart – cancer.
A. J. Pritchard
I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
King Hu
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don’t want most of the things you think you want.
Bo Bennett
I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It’s just boring old habits.
Ray Allen
I have nothing against the Victoria’s Secret Angels. They’re all beautiful people, and I respect where they are at.
Rain Dove
The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange’s judgment has been pretty good so far.
Daniel Ellsberg
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D’Israeli
I grew up in the ’80s where there’s a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you’re not supposed to.
Gillian Flynn
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
Edward Norton
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
These ‘Sports Illustrated’ people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli
People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it’s locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they’d stamp ‘top secret’ on the color of the walls.
Helen Thomas
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That’s the secret of my life.
Guy Kawasaki
I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
Andre Rieu
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.
Pedro Almodovar
I don’t know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O’Carroll couldn’t get away with. I think maybe it’s a leniency that they’re with an old woman. It’s the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
Brendan O’Carroll
The most direct path to achievement whether you’re an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.
Maynard Webb
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
Albert Camus
That’s probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Melissa Leo
The Matrix is top secret. There isn’t much that can be said right now.
Aaliyah
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o’clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn’t complicated.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
Richard Gere
Americans’ great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Shirley Hazzard
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don’t hesitate.
Joseph Epstein
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There’s no assured success. There’s no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
Mel Gibson
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
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
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
William Gilbert
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator – just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.
Joe Biden