“A wise person is one who watches over himself and restrains himself from that which is harmful and strives for that which will confront him after death; and a foolish one is he who gives rein to his cravings and seeks from Allah the fulfillment of his vain desires.”
“It is part of the excellence of a person’s Islam that he should eschew that which is of no benefit to him.”
- Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam)
Wisdom Shared III
March 11, 2008 at 11:00 pm (All Quotes)
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Prejudice and Discrimination
January 22, 2008 at 11:53 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain
“We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.” – Robert Green
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.” – Anatole France
“Prejudice is the reason of fools.” – Voltaire
“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.” – Allan Bloom
“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.” – Alexander Cockburn
“Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.” – Duchess de Abrantes
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.” – Dale Carnegie
“Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.” – Robert Hall
“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.” – John Wesley
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.” – Ambrose Bierce
“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.” – Adlai E. Stevenson
“Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.” – Mark Twain
“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.” – Hebrew Proverb
“I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything — outer and inner — a deep spiritual brotherhood.” – Bhagwan Shree
“When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“The sun showers light to one and all without any discrimination. Similarly, humans should also engage himself in doing works for the benefit of the society.” – Atharva Veda
Elegance and Eloquence
January 4, 2008 at 6:59 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.” – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.” – David Lloyd George
“For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.” – Christian Lacroix
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” – Yves Saint Laurent
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.” – Coco Chanel
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.” – Juan Ruiz
“If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.” – Epictetus
“Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.” – Marshall McLuhan
“If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.” – Marcel Proust
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common – this is my symphony.” – William Ellery Channing
“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.” – Diana Vreeland
“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.” – Blaise Pascal
“True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.” – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.” – William R. Alger
“Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.” – Diana Vreeland
“Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” – Yves Saint Laurent
“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” – Heinrich Heine
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.” – Joseph Addison
Money and Purpose
January 2, 2008 at 11:45 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.” – William A. Ward
“Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.” – Earl Wilson
“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
“All days are not same. Save for a rainy day. When you don’t work, savings will work for you.” – M.K. Soni
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.” – Billy Graham
“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.” – Francis Bacon
“Can implementing the three R’s – reduce, recycle, reuse, save you money? If you only implemented the three R’s in your kitchen, you would save money.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” – Henry Ford
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin
“You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” – Ruth Smeltzer
“Don’t wash money down the drain!” – Naomi Knudsen
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I save money when I’m working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.” – Gary Sinise
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard
Dignity and Nobleness
December 30, 2007 at 11:56 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!” – Gary Ryan Blair
“The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.” – Buddha
“Do not destroy a child’s dignity. There is a vast difference between being harsh and being firm.” – Unknown
“The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.” – Confucius
“We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.” – Aristotle
“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.” – Kahlil Gibran
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” – Mark Twain
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility — these are marks of maturity and graciousness.” – William Arthur Ward
“There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone succeed.” – Alan Loy McGinnis
“Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.” – James Matthew Barrie
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.” – Blaise Pascal
“Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One’s actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.” – Dalai Lama
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.” – Mikhail Bakunin
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” – Albert Einstein
“God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.” – Mark Twain
“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.” – W. Kelly Griffith
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham J. Heschel
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” – Elijah Wood
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Morton Kondrake
“Do noble things, not dream them all day long.” – Charles Kingsley
“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” – Samuel Ullman
“Keep your faith pure, even the smallest good deed will suffice.” – Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam)
Honor and Virtue
December 29, 2007 at 11:49 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
“If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.” – William ArnotWilliam Arnot
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.” – Aristotle
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but… wealth, and every other good thing which men have… comes from virtue.” – Socrates
“Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.” – William Shakespeare
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”.” – Sydney J. Harris
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.” – Proverb
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” – Calvin Coolidge
“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.” – Aristotle
“Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.” – Akhenaton
“The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.” – Blaise Pascal
“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.” – Wendell L. Willkie
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” – Buddha
“A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” – Walter Lippmann
“Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, ‘We did this ourselves.’” – Lao Tzu
“Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor, are not giving, they are bargaining.” – Philo Judaeus
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” – Henry Louis Mencken
“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.” – Socrates
“There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance.” – Victor Hugo
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
“Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” – Anne Herbert
“Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.” – Alexander Pope
“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.” – Confucius
“True modesty is the source of all virtues.” – Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam)
Goodwill and Humanity
December 27, 2007 at 10:02 am (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
“Peace on earth, the quiet wish of every heart, the focus of each prayer, is that this season be the start of goodwill everywhere.” – Unknown
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.” – Jean Paul Richter
“There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.” – Michel de Montaigne
“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.” – Wangari Maathai
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth.” – Albert Einstein
“Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.” James A. Garfield
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.” – Oscar Wilde
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity…” – Marie Curie
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.” – Albert Einstein
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.” – Albert Schweitzer
Grace and Kindness
December 26, 2007 at 9:44 pm (All Blogs, All Quotes)
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” – Stephan Grellet
“Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.” – Mother Teresa
“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you’re beyond the need of God’s grace.” – Unknown
“I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.” – Edward Everett Hale
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.” – Dalai Lama
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” – Mother Teresa
“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.” – Jackie Windspear
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” – Confucius
“Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.” – Alice Abrams
“Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.” – Karl Barth
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
“Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” – Og Mandino
“Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Seneca
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – Dalai Lama
“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.” – Unknown
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you.” – Unknown
“Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.” – Martin Luther
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
