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Timeless Wisdom: Golden Sayings of Great Minds"

"Inspiring Thoughts from the Legends Who Shaped the World"

By syed waqar ahmedPublished 9 months ago 3 min read

"Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence." — Arabic Proverb

"The best among you are those who have the best manners and character." — Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

"He who does not thank people has not thanked God." — Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

"Silence is the best reply to a fool." — Hazrat Ali (RA)

"Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it." — Imam Ali (RA)

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." — Rumi

"Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." — Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you." — Rumi

"He who knows himself knows his Lord." — Imam Ghazali

"The tongue is like a lion. If you let it loose, it will wound someone." — Imam Ali (RA)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Aristotle

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." — Aristotle

"An unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." — Socrates

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." — Plato

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." — Victor Hugo

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Martin Luther King Jr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that." — Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." — Buddha

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." — Buddha

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." — Buddha

"Educate a man, you educate an individual. Educate a woman, you educate a nation." — African Proverb

"Do not look down on someone unless you’re helping them up." — Jesse Jackson

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." — Mark Twain

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." — Mahatma Gandhi

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing." — Mother Teresa

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." — Mother Teresa

"Live simply so that others may simply live." — Mother Teresa

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." — Aristotle

"To educate the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." — Aristotle

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." — William Shakespeare

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." — William Shakespeare

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." — Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." — Albert Einstein

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." — Albert Einstein

"He who has no one has Allah. And he who has Allah needs no one else." — Islamic Saying

"The best revenge is to improve yourself." — Imam Shafi

"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave." — Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

"A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." — Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

"Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." — Aesop

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn

"Don’t raise your children to be rich. Raise them to be happy." — Anonymous

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When character is lost, everything is lost." — Billy Graham

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." — African Proverb

"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends." — Naguib Mahfouz

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