Ali ibn Abi Talib famous quotes

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Hate #Thinking #Giving

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Done

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Taken #Islamic

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Envy #Manners #Bad Manners

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wise #Men #Ignorant

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Clouds #Passing Away #Alive

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Inspiring #Men #Insightful

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Lazy #Three #Action

Silence is the best reply to a fool.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Silence #Fool #Silence Is

Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Meaningful #Wisdom #Islamic

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Soul #Body #Feeding

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Cost #Courtesy

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Three

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Beautiful #People #Good People

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Past #Men #Worry

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Pride

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Water #Ego #Soul

"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Religious #Devotion #Form

The best revenge is to improve yourself.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Revenge #Best Revenge #Improving Yourself

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Regret #Moments #Thousand

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wise #Enemy #Foolish

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Judging #Secret #Sin

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Piercings

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Light

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Soul

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Fighting #Desire

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Islamic #Heart #Enemy

He who understands humanity seeks solitude
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Solitude #Humanity

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Pain #Islamic

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Heart #Animal #Self

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Educational #Thinking #Vision

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Eating #Cattle #Delicious Food

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Arrogant #Deeds #Sin

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Brother #Two #People

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Heart #Body #Disease

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Riches #Poverty

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Asceticism #Should

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Dislike

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Character #Men #Insightful

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#World #Betray

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Blessed #Men #People

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Kindness #Perfection #Succeed

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Beauty #Self #Evil

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Hopeful #Chance

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#People #Faults #Worst

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #World

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Islamic #Causes #Speak

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Squash #Broken #Broken Promises

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Islamic #Silence #Sometimes

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Heart #Medicine #Word Of God

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Long #People #Alive

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Pride #Two #People

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#True Friend #Soul #Different

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Forgive And Forget #Forgiving

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Doe #Sin #Repentance

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Aspiration #Nobility

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Persons #Helpless

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Grief #Heart #Past

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Causes #Gods Will

A man is hid under his tongue.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Tongue

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Ignorance #Unawareness #Intellect

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Insightful #Wicked

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Insightful #Contentment #Exhausted

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Heart #Eye #Space

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Mind #Desire

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Sorrow #Bears #Calamity

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Able #Action

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Moral #Companion #Admirable

The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Taken #Way #Hell

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Humble #People #Honor

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Let Me #Me Alone

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation ... Do not ever say, 'I have been given authority' or 'My command should be obeyed.' Because it corrupts the heart, consumes one's faith, and invites calamities.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Kindness #Fall #Heart

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Understanding #Knowledge And Wisdom #Higher

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Rewards #Prize

Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Angel #Son #Animal

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Destiny #Life Is #Thee

There is no nobility with bad manners.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Manners #Nobility #Bad Manners

Stubbornness destroys good advice.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Advice #Insightful #Selling

Vanity prevents improvement
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Vanity #Insightful #Improvement

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Justice #Understanding

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Flower #Compassion #Hands

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Hands #Secret #Insightful

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Nice #Islamic

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Men

Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Ignorance

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Grief

Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered, The ignorant are to the learned their enemies, Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever, Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Men

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Running #Wisdom #Islamic

Greed is permanent slavery
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Greed #Insightful #Slavery

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Disappointment #Frustration #Insightful

You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Hate #Desire #Done

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Hate

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#People

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Ignorance #Poverty #Wealth

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Islamic #Taken

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Stars #Night #Shining

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Men #Doors

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Tongue #Faces

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Helping #Sin #Abstinence

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Men #Wiser