Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom. "
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
The secret of success is concentration. . . Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana. . . About 50,000 times.
If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.
In 1902 I left the A. E. G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir. , long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success. " It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.
Clearly the secret of happiness. . . is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.
I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.