98 Secret Inspirational Quotes

Are you looking for a burst of inspiration to brighten your day or spark a new perspective? You’re in the right place! We’ve compiled a handpicked selection of the top 98 secret inspirational quotes that promise to uplift your spirits and motivate you to reach new heights. Whether you’re seeking words of wisdom for personal growth, professional motivation, or just a touch of daily encouragement, these quotes are sure to resonate and inspire. Let’s dive into a treasure trove of timeless insights and discover the transformative power of these hidden gems.

1. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” - Oscar Wilde

2. “I would prefer not to.” - Herman Melville

3. “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” - Sigmund Freud

4. “there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep, doyou?” - Charles Bukowski

5. “Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.” - P.D. James

6. “The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.” - Orson Scott Card

7. “Uncertainty is one of government recipes.” - Toba Beta

8. “We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.” - Blaise Pascal

9. “Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.” - Vera Nazarian

10. “I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.” - Deb Caletti

12. “Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.” - Lauren Myracle

13. “It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

14. “Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.” - Vera Nazarian

15. “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

16. “Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species.” - Toba Beta

17. “An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.” - Toba Beta

18. “People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.” - Sue Monk Kidd

19. “Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.” - Toba Beta

20. “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier” - Brandon Sanderson

21. “What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.” - Howard Thurman

22. “Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

23. “If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

24. “There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

25. “Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

26. “The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

27. “No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

28. “There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

29. “I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

30. “Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

31. “Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.” - Toba Beta

32. “Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.” - Toba Beta

33. “There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.” - Toba Beta

34. “Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.” - Toba Beta

35. “There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.” - Toba Beta

36. “There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retribution. That, surely, were a shallow view of it. No; these revelations, unless I greatly error, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

37. “Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.” - Wilfred Owen

38. “Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.” - Mary Balogh

39. “The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.” - Toba Beta

40. “Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.” - Toba Beta

41. “Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls' bladders that boys use to learn swimming. Sterlingov angrily spat out his cigarette. 'Well? What about?' 'A . . . about a secret matter ,' Alyoshka whispered. Dozens of ears floated around them in the dust waves; the whisper was heard, and it ran on like a spark along a gunpowder wick. Alyoshka's secret message, the mysterious special clothing, the deacon's catastrophe-all this was too much. The atmosphere was charged with thousands of volts, and something was needed to discharge the electricity, to clear the air. ("X")” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

42. “Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli” - Budha

43. “Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.” - Henry Ford

44. “Secret is the mother of all lies.” - Toba Beta

45. “You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

46. “Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.” - Louisa May Alcott

47. “If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.” - Federico Chini

48. “I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

49. “Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi.” - Hamka

50. “Mutually assured destruction.” - Holly Black

51. “He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).” - Ann Voskamp

52. “Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?""It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah."No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")” - Daphne du Maurier

53. “She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.” - Kristin Hannah

54. “Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.” - Irving Kirsch

55. “You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.” - Terence McKenna

56. “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.” - Edmond Rostand

57. “Ein Geheimnis ist soviel wert wie der der es uns anvertraut.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

58. “How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?” - Alice Sebold

59. “Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.” - Janet Taylor Lisle

60. “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” - Norman Rockwell

61. “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.” - Anne Rice

62. “Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.” - Cassandra Clare

63. “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” - William Goldman

64. “I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.” - Rebecca Donovan

65. “But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” - Hilary Mantel

66. “Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.” - Gwen Ro

67. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

68. “It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.” - Dana Candler

69. “Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.” - Stephanie Dalley

70. “Între eroare și prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire și chiar o complicitate secretă pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înlăture.” - Jean-Claude Carrière

71. “Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?” - Kristin Cashore

72. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

73. “Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslaptį ir kamuojasi dėl jos taip niekada ir nepriartėdami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.” - Christopher Priest

74. “King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.” - Kristin Cashore

75. “If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.” - Linda Pohl

76. “Todo buen matrimonio es un territorio secreto, un espacio necesariamente en blanco en el mapa de la sociedad. Lo que los demás no saben de él es lo que lo hace tuyo.” - Stephen King

77. “Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.” - Shannon A Thompson

78. “If someone offered the chance to be happy for the rest of your life, everyone in the room will bid, but what they don't know that the secret is nothing, they all have the power already with them.One of the most bizarre quirks of human beings is that they have always craved for happiness and yet have always found it difficult to find the things that would really make them happy. The everlasting happiness cannot be achieved through other people or the materialistic things.” - RKSJ(Rohit Kumar Singh Jadon)

79. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.” - Heather Anastasiu

88. “...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...” - Paul Hoffman

89. “...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...” - John Geddes

90. “In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” - Christopher Morley

91. “I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.” - Jennifer Paynter

92. “We're nobody's dirty little secret.” - Rebecca O'Donnell

93. “Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups can be abusers with both sexes involved in all aspects of the abuse. Children are often forced to abuse other children. Pornography and prostitution are sometimes part of the abuse as is the use of drugs, hypnotism and mind control. Some groups use complex rituals to terrify, silence and convince victims of the tremendous power of the abusers. the purpose is to gain and maintain power over the child in order to exploit. Some groups are so highly organised that they also have links internationally through trade in child-pornography, drugs and arms.Some abusers organise themselves around a religion or faith and the teaching and training of the children within this faith, often takes the form of severe and sustained torture and abuse. Whether or not the adults within this type of group believe that what they are doing is, in some way 'right' is immaterial to the child on the receiving end of the 'teachings' and abuse.” - Laurie Matthew

94. “In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make the person one of them...thus gaining powerIf abusers hold all the power, becoming one of them can, for some, be the only means of survival. However, this doesn't always work, instead survivors often find ways of regaining their own power and fighting back.” - Laurie Matthew

95. “Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.” - Brandon Sanderson

96. “Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.” - Anton Chehov

97. “I'm not trying to avoid you,' I replied lamely, but what else could I say? Sorry Brae but when I first came down to meet you I had no idea how hard it was going to be to avoid telling you that I was turning into a grotesque monster and I am worried that there is a good chance I could wake up one morning with a sudden lust for your blood. Somehow I didn't think that would go down particularly well.” - Heather James

98. “There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.” - Dillon Burroughs