I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.
Aziz Ansari

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Adolf Loos

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

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Tom Landry

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert Lawrence

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne

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

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher