100+ Imam Ali Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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Authority Change Character Man Power Reveal Wealth
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
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Against Inspirational Pain Patience
Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.
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God One Liner
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
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Cause Destroy People Poverty Pride Seek Superior
Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.
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Future Man Past Present Ruin Weep Worry
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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Enemy God Pardon Power Thankful
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
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Control Desire Inspirational Mind
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
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Knowledge Person Sign Silence
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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Die Forever Future Inspirational Life Live
Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
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Consideration Error Faith Intellect Lack Lead
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
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Chance Difficult Hopeless Man
Think positively, no matter how hard life is.
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Hard Time Healing Life One Liner Positive
Where there is haste, there must be mistake.
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Hurry Inspirational Mistake Patience
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.
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Consideration Death Friendship Need Occasion Test Time
He who understands humanity seeks solitude.
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Humanity One Liner Seek Solitude Understand
People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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Animal Attachment Deep Heart Love People Traning Wild
Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
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Busy Fight Himself Perhaps Pride Silence
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
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Anger Moments Patience Prevent Regret
He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.
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Born Death Deep Die Live
The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
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Body Feed Food Nourish Soul
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.
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Commitment Exhausted Wealth
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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Action Goodness Inspirational Perfection Success
Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
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Crush Deep Flower Fragnance Hand Positive
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
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Cattle Creation Delicious Eat Food
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
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Darkness Knowledge Shadow Truth World
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
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Brother Equality Faith Humanity People
Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
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Easy Lose Safety Secure Silence Speak

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