LIFE CHANGING QUOTES FROM ALI IBN ABI TALIB
The Quotes of Ali ibn abi Talib are known for their eloquent contents and are considered masterpieces of literature.
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Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Through patience great things are accomplished.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“O’ People! Try to be honest for God is the helper of honest people. Avoid telling lies since it will ruin your faith. Know that honest people are on the verge of nobility and honor, while liars are on the verge of collapse and destruction.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If someone hurts you then don’t be upset, as it’s the law of nature that the trees with the sweetest fruits are beaten the most.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The biggest shame is to mock at something that you have in yourself.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all, it is only in the darkest nights that the stars shine more brilliantly.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Be obscure and do not attempt to be famous, do not elevate yourself in order to be remembered. Learn and conceal, find safety in silence, you will please the righteous people and you will outrage the wicked.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Don’t develop a friendship with the enemy of your friend; otherwise, your friend will turn into an enemy.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Treat people the way you want to be treated.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
When you are unable to resolve something through trying and praying, leave the decision to God as God always decides better for His followers.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is peace in solitude, away from the evils of people.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Trade should go on between the buyers and sellers according to correct measures and weights and on such reasonable terms that neither the consumers nor the suppliers should have to face losses.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Work for a better life as if you live forever, and work for a better end as if you die tomorrow.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
My Lord, You know me better than I know myself.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Ask me before you lose me.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
He who loves you forbids you from committing sin.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Aim to live in this world without allowing the world to live inside you because when a boat sits on water it sails perfectly, but when water enters inside the boat, it sinks.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Books are gardens of the knowledgeable.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you want to know where your heart is, see where your mind goes when it wanders.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Forgiveness is the best revenge.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
You should have no hope in anyone but God.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Meet the people in such a manner that if you die, they should weep for you, and if you live, they should long for you.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is a key to every door, and a dawn to every dark night.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
When words come from the heart of anyone, they find a place in the heart of another.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The most ignorant of those who are ignorant is the one who trips over the same stone twice.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Let go of what has passed.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Goodness towards one’s parents is the greatest duty.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Let go of anything that brings you stress and sorrow.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Gold is tested with fire, and the believer is tested with trials.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
When you speak, be truthful.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Nobility in 3 traits: being generous when you have little to give, tolerating without being humiliated, and abstaining from asking for favors.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The nourishment of the body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Modesty is the means to all beauty.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Keep your thoughts cleaner than pure water. As water drops make a river, thoughts make character and faith.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not follow the majority, follow the truth.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Leave alone what does not concern you, and leave alone what does not belong to you.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The winner is the one who sells his world for his hereafter.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Wakefulness is consciousness.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
See the bad inside yourself, and see the good inside others.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Remember that people are of two kinds, they are either your brothers in religion or your brothers in mankind.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Quite often, a tongue destroys a person.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A person is weighed by his speech and valued by his action. So say that which is weighty and do that which has great value.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Never let anything occupy you from working for the Hereafter, for indeed the time is short.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not be a slave to others when God has created you free.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You Presume you are a small entity, But within you is enfolded the entire universe. You are indeed the evident book, By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest. Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself, What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Silence is the garden of thought.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Life consists of two days: one for you and one against you, so when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Every breath you take is a step towards death.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
O Alaah, i haven’t worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I’ve worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Justice is putting everything in its proper place.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He’d love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not look at who is talking, but look at what he is saying.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.”
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
What you hide in your heart, appears in your eyes.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
