Quotes from Ali ibn Abi Talib

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

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.

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.

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

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

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."