Famous quotes collection on Intuition

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."
~ Madame De Girardin

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
~ Albert Einstein

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
~ Alan Alda

“I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.”
~ Kim Basinger

“Often you have to rely on intuition.”
~ Bill Gates

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
~ Billy Wilder

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
~ Florence Scovel Shinn

"An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's"
~ Holden Rinehart

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
~ Alexis Carrel

"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Pete Sampras famous quotes collection

Few of great quotes from the former World No 1 tennis player Pete Sampras

“I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”

“I just had to hang in there and make sure I was dictating play,”

“The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.”

“Clay will be the toughest surface for Roger. If things go right, if the weather's right, I think he can win it.”
~ On Roger Federer

"When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years."

"You kind of live and die by the serve."

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity."

"In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically."

"For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1."

"There`s always one shot that I can rely on when I`m not hitting the ball that well, is my serve."

Famous Father's Day Inspirational Quotes

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
~ Clarence Budington Kelland

"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
~ William Wordsworth

"One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters."
~ George Herbert

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown."
~ Unknown

"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!"
~ Philip Whitmore Snr

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
~ Jim Valvano

"Are we not like two volumes of one book?"
~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
~ Charles Wadworth

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
~ Jewish Proverb

Helen Keller inspirational life quotes

Few of very inspirational quotes on life by the famous American author, political activist and lecturer Helen Keller

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Famous old age quotes and sayings

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
~ Billie Burke

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."
~ Edith Wharton

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"
~ Alice James

"I want to die young at a ripe old age."
~ Ashley Montagu

"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."
~ Helen Hayes

"Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."
~ Jeanne Moreau

"First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful."
~ Lady Diana Cooper

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old"
~ George Burns

Robert Browning famous quotes collection

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

"My sun sets to rise again."

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin"

"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."

"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"

"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"

Famous Metallica quotes collection

James Hetfield quotes:

"Regret? That's a screwed up word."

"I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."

"When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening."

"I'm married to Metallica."

Kirk Hammett quotes:

"I would have never imagined that we'd be as popular as we are right now."

"My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired to my head."


Lars Ulrich quotes:

"To me the most boring thing in the world is safe, mainstream heavy metal...I'd rather listen to Madonna."

"To go from one extreme to the other, with no boundaries. That's the best. That's what Metallica is all about."

Jason Newsted quotes:

"We don't have to do any shit we don't want to. If it doesn't come out good, forget it. It has to be unique, something that really represents us."

Cliff Burton quotes

"To live is to die"

Famous quotes collection on Laughter

"Carry laughter with you wherever you go."
~ Hugh Sidey

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
~ Arnold Glasow

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."
~ Woody Allen

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
~ e.e. cummings

"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other."
~ Alan Alda

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
~ Victor Borge

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks."
~ Henri Bergson

"Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food."
~ Anna Fellows Johnston

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak."
~ Mort Walker

"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."
~ Ken Kesey

Famous quotes collection on joy

"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."
~ Lord Byron

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside."
~ Melba Colgrove

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"
~ Richard Wagner

"A joy shared is a joy doubled"
~ Unknown

"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Joy is the best makeup."
~ Anne Lamott

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
~ Helen Keller

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
~ John Keats

Famous quotes by Donald Bradman

Some of famous quotes from the Australian cricketer and the Cricket Legend Sir Donald Bradman


"I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat."

"If there is a threat to the game of cricket, that threat lies in the first class arena. One day cricket, especially day-night cricket, is here to stay."

Some of his sayings from his last interview in 1996

"Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know"

"Undoubtedly the best all-round cricketer I've ever set eyes on"
~ Sir Donald Bradman on West Indies' Gary Sobers

"The best thing that's happened to the game for many years"
~ Sir Donald Bradman on Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne

"Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out"
~ On his 254 scored at Lord's

"I'm very sorry I made a duck, I'd have been glad if I'd made those four extra runs to have an average of 100. I didn't know it at the time and I don't think the Englishmen knew it either. I think if they had known it they may have been generous enough to let me get four"

"Of course that's rubbish. I was certainly emotional, but I wasn't that bad. But I was very sad walking out. I felt I'd let the people down"
~ Denying the question that he got out because of tears in his eyes

"Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development"
~ Bradman on match- fixing

"A good captain must be a fighter; confident but not arrogant, firm but not obstinate; able to take criticism without letting it unduly disturb him, for he is sure to get it - and unfairly, too,"

Apologies quotes and sayings collection

"Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift."
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
~ Kimberly Johnson

"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."
~ Lynn Johnston

"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."
~ Red Auerbach

"The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology."
~ Unknown

"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
~ Henry A. Kissinger

"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
~ Tryon Edwards

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
~ Chesterton, Gilbert K.

"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
~ Steve Martin

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."
~ Jim Rohn

Famous quotes on wisdom and knowledge

"Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom."
~ Greek Adage

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
~ Sidonie Gabrielle

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
~ Unknown

"In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it"
~ Albert Einstein

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
~ Sandra Carey

"I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received"
~ Antonio Porchia

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."
~ Herb Caen

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
~ Francis Bacon

Famous quotes collection from Yanni

Some of very inspiring quotes from the music legend Yanni

"Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible."

"My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy'."

"The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be."

"My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well."

"The most important battle is one to conquer yourself."

"I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish."

"Creativity is an inherent quality of highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts."

"My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music -- music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener."

"I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving."

"As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music."

Famous quotes collection on mistake

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
~ John Peel

"That's not serious; it's just human."
~ Jerry Kopke

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
~ Colette

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
~ Henry S. Haskins

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
~ Syrus

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
~ Confucius

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~ James Joyce

Famous quotes collection on dream

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
~ Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

"Dreams are nature's answering service - don't forget to pick up your messages once in a while."
~ Sarah Crestinn

"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask."
~ X-Files

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
~ Elias Canetti

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."
~ Marsha Norman

"One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric."
~ Evelyn Waugh

"In a dream you are never eighty."
~ Anne Sexton

"In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own."
~ Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)

"For a dreamer, night's the only time of day."
~ Newsies(movie)

And a good one from Indian boxer Akhil Kumar
“Dreams are those that don’t let you sleep at night,”

Famous Courage quotes, sayings on Bravery

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
~ Sven Goran Eriksson

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
~ Jesse Jackson

“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”
~ Rosanne Cash

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
~ John Maxwell

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

"Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
~ Samuel Johnson

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
~ Mark Twain

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow"
~ Dan Rather

"A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."
~ Marvin Kitman

Famous quotes on Politeness, good manner

“Politeness wins the confidence of princes”
~ Chinese Proverbs

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
~ Josh Billings

“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.”
~ Abel Stevens

“Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.”
~ Robert Fulghum

“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
~ François de la Rochefoucauld

"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."
~ Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater

"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
~ Otto von Bismarck

"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
~ Jackie Kennedy

"True politeness consists in being easy one`s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can"
~ Alexander Pope

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
~ Joseph Joubert

Life and living - inspiring quote

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying...
And suddenly I realized I forgot to live.

~ Author unknown

Famous quotes on Positive attitude

"When you believe you can...you can!"
~ Maxwell Maltz

"When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are."
~ Edgar Cayce

"When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated others."
~ Zig Ziglar

"Pessimism never won any battle."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
~ Doug Larson

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
~ Herm Albright

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
~ Winston Churchill

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."
~ Foster's Law

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it."
~ Joe Clark