Quotable Quotes

Compiled By: Abu Shazil

1. Take time to laugh for it refreshes the soul.
2. To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.
3. Man looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks within.
4. We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.
5. Happy memories never wear out.. relive them as often as you want.
6. The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
7. Everyone needs to be loved...especially when they do not deserve it.
8. The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.
9. Do what you can, for whom you can, with what you have, and where you are.
10. Home is the place where we grumble the most, but are often treated the best.
11. A hug is a great gift. One size fits all. It can be given for any occasion and it's easy to exchange.

Beautiful Words to Live by

Complied By: Abu Shazil

1. All people smile in the same language.
2. Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.
3. Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.
4. The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.
5. Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.
6. You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.
7. It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.
8. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
9. Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.
10. Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
11. Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

Learn It, Live It, Love It...

Compiled By: Abu Shazil

1. Virtue never dies.
2. Knowledge enlivens the soul.
3. Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.
4. Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
5. The Word of God is the medicine of the heart.
6. Of all follies, the greatest is to love the world.
7. The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.
8. Opportunity is swift of flight, but slow to return.
9. The strongest among you is he who subdues himself.
10. The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.
11. Resignation to the Will of God is the cure for the disease of the heart.

Words of Wisdom

QUOTES

1. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde
2. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle
3. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
4. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
5. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy
6. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess
7. Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein
8. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill, Sir
9. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams - The Dilbert Principle
10. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
11. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

Quotes --- Nation

1. No nation has friends only interests ~ Charles de Gaulle
 
2. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ~ Confucius
 
3. No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ~ Thomas Jefferson
 
4. A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten ~ Kemal Ataturk
 
5. You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~ George Norman Douglas
 
6. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes ~ Stanley Kubrick
 
7. We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
 
8. To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself.
 
9. A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ~ Thomas Jefferson
 
10. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
11. A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Life Transforming Quotes

1.       In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

        2.       A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. - Bil Keane

       3.       Depth of FRIENDSHIP does not depend... on L E N G T H of Acquaintance. - Tagore

      4.       Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain

      5.       No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself. — Conrado I. Generoso

6.       A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.       You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. - Abraham Lincoln

8.       You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. —James D. Miles 

9.       ‎Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Muhammad Ali Kalay

10.   One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold H. Glasow

11.   Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Sayings of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali JInnah

1.     The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia

2.     The change in the world is always brought by one man, whom we call "the leader".

3.     Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

4.     In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great.

5.     No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

6.     Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

7.     With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

8.     It is your sacred duty to look after the poor and help them. I would never have gone through the toil and suffering for the last ten years had I not felt our sacred duty towards them.

9.     I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam.

10.  You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

11.  There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Quotes of Hazrat Umar Farooq R.A.

Compiled By: Abu Shazil

1.    He who does not know evil will fall into it.

2.    Be patient because patience is a pillar of faith.

3.    Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

4.    Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

5.    Praise God, for through praise, His blessings multiply.

6.    Fear God, for He alone lives. All other things are liable to perish.

7.    The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of God.

8.    May God have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.

9.    On every dishonest man there are two watchmen, his possessions and his way of living.

10. If patience and gratitude had been two she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

11. Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that which God wishes them to say.

Quotes of Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddigue

1.    In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

2.    It is good to repent from sin; [but] it is better to avoid [it].

3.    Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

4.    Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

5.    If you expect the blessings of God, [then] be kind to His people.

6.    The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

7.    When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

8.    Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

9.    It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

10.  When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

11.  There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Quotes of Hazrat Ali (KAW)

Selected By: Abu Shazil

ü  Virtue never dies.

ü  Knowledge enlivens the soul.

ü  Do not become a slave to your desire.

ü  Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.

ü  Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

ü  The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.

ü  The strongest among you is he who subdues himself.

ü  The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.

ü  Resignation to the Will of God is the cure for the disease of the heart.

ü  Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

ü  A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

Sayings of Allama Muhammad Iqbal

1.      Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

2.      Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

3.      It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

4.      Why have you made me born in this country, The inhabitants of which are satisfied with being a slave?

5.      Why should I ask the wise men: Which is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

6.      Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

7.      Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap  and woof of our conscious experience.

8.      I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

9.      If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

10.   If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

11.   Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Quotes By Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him

1.     Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.
2.     The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
3.     The love of the world is the root of all evil.
4.     Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people.
5.     It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.
6.     A sincere repenter of faults is like him who hath committed none.
7.     Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.
8.     The rights of women are sacred. See that women are maintained in the rights assigned to them.
9.     Riches are not from an abundance of wordly goods but from a contented mind.
10.   Everyone is divinely furthered in accordance with his character.
11.   They will enter the Garden of Bliss who have a true, pure, and merciful heart.

May Allah Bless us all to follow the right.