Quotes by Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”

“The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.”

“You are as much able as you know”

“If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from t...”

“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for if hope arises in it, it is brought low by covetousness: and if covetousness is...”

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”

“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”

“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.”

“When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish.”

“The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity.”

“The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.”

“A man's measure is his will.”

“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.”

“Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.”

“If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.”

“If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.”

“Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people)”

“Dont count the days. Make the days count.”

“whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions”