Saying of Hazrat Ali R.A

• Fear God and you will have no cause to fear anyone.
• Resignation to the Will of God is the cure for the disease of the heart.
• The Word of God is the medicine of the heart.
• Lead such a life that when you die people will mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
• The days of your life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
• Of all follies, the greatest is to love the world.
• Opportunity is swift of flight, but slow to return.
• The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.
• He who knows himself knows God.
• Do not sell your conscience for anything but heaven.
• The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
• To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
• The strongest among you is he who subdues himself.
• Wealth and greed are the roots of all evil.
• Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
• A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
• Knowledge enlivens the soul.
• The learned lives although he dies.
• The sum total of excellence is knowledge.
• To respect the learned is to respect God.
• Generosity hides shortcomings.
• The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.
• Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.
• Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it.
• Every breath of man brings him nearer to death.
• People are asleep as long as they live. They are awakened when they die.
• Patience is the fruit of faith.
• Virtue never dies.
• A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree.
• No shelter is safer than piety.
• A man's behaviour is the index of his mind.
• Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.
• Clemency graces power.
• Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel.
• He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those [who] deserves reproach.
• Forgiveness is the crown of greatness.
• Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil.
• Every arrow does not hit [its] mark, nor is every prayer granted.
• Ostentatiousness spoils prayer.
• Fear none but your sins.
• He who praises you murders you.
• A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect.
• Honour your parents and your sons will honour you.
• A man is hidden under his tongue.
• The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart.
• The tongue pierces deeper than [a] spear.
• He who purifies his heart from doubt is a believer.
• The opinion of a wise man is [like] an oracle.
• To seek council is to go to the fountain of guidance.
• Association with a fool is tyranny to the soul.
• God hastens the fall of tyrants.
• Tyranny leads to moral cowardice.
• A tyrant's success is his moral defeat.
• It is better to die than to beg.
• When a man begs, he loses his faith.
• Hajj is the jihad of every believer in faith.
• A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
• Silence is the best reply to a fool.
• The best speech is one that is short and reasonable.
• Speech is like a medicine, a small dose will cure but an excess will kill.
• He that has no courage has no religion.
• His grief is long whose hope is short.
• The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth.
• Repentance washes away sin.
• Folly is an incurable disease.
• To assist the wrong is to oppress the right.
• Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it is a sure cure.
• Sorrow makes a man old before his time.
• Pride impedes progress and mars greatness.
• To forgive is the crown of greatness.
• He who understands humanity seeks solitude.
• Right is the best argument.
• Misrepresentation spoils narration.
• As a man's wisdom increases so his desire to speak decreases.
• He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for them what he desires for himself.
• The greatest sin is the sin which the sinner considers to be ordinary.
• Contentment is an asset which is never exhausted.
• Governments are a trial for man.
• He who fights against the truth, the truth will defeat him.
• Finding fault with others is one's greatest fault.
• Haste is a [kind] of madness.
• Greed is perpetual enslavement.
• He who does not know his own worth, is doomed to destruction.
• The best investment is one with which duties are performed.
• Anger is a fire kindled, he who restrains anger extinguishes the fire; he who gives vent to it is the first to be consumed by it.
• Jihad is the highway of prosperity.
• None is more solitary than a miser.
• Knowledge is the ornament of the rich and the riches of the poor.
• Knowledge is the sum total of excellence; he who teaches you a letter binds you with a fetter of gratitude.
• As long as we do not hope we do not fret.
• He who indulges in jokes and loose talk loses a part of his wisdom.
• Truth [may be] bitter, but it's a result is sweet; falsehood appears to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect.
• Miserliness is the root of many evils.
• Knowledge and practice are twins, and both go together for there is no knowledge without practice, and no practice without knowledge.
• He who dissembles, plays with his honour.
• When God wants to humiliate a person, He deprives him of knowledge.
• When your power increases, decrease your desires accordingly.
• He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend.
• It is not justice to decide a case on mere conjecture.
• He who does not know his own worth is shameful.
• He who practices thrift will never be in want.
• He who does not know should not be ashamed to learn.
• Patience is to faith what the head is to the body. When patience goes, faith goes [and] when the head goes, the body goes.
• The grace of God is the best guide.
• A good disposition is the best companion.
• Wisdom is the best friend.
• Good breeding is the best inheritance.
• There is nothing more hateful than pride.
• Be among men like a bee among birds.
• Mix with the people with your tongue, but be separate from them in your deeds.
• Be generous, but do not be a spendthrift.
• Do not run after the world, let the world to run after you.
• A wise man is he who does not despair of the bounty and mercy of God.
• He who is aware of his own faults is oblivious to the faults of others.
• What the eye sees the heart preserves.
• The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
• Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
• Do not have too many irons in the fire; concentrate on one thing at a time.
• What you do not like for yourself, do not like it for others either.
• Contentment is the treasure which is never exhausted.
• The advice of old men is dearer than the bravery of young men.
• That knowledge is superficial which is merely on the tongue; that knowledge is real which demonstrates itself in your practice.
• To waste time is one's greatest loss.
• He who knows to keep his secret, knows the way to success.
• Foresight is the way to safety.
• No relationship is stronger than the relationship that exists between man and God.
• Enlighten the heart with prayers.
• Strengthen your heart with faith.
• Suppress all lust with piety.
• Do not sell the Hereafter for the world.
• Do not speak in a state of ignorance.
• Refrain from unnecessary talk.
• Do not tread the path from which you can apprehend the danger of running astray.
• In the affairs of God, do not be afraid of the accusations of evil mongers.
• In all that you do, seek the protection of God.
• Do not covet what is undesirable.
• If you seek the truth, neither stray from the right path nor be assailed by doubts.
• Do not become a slave to your desire.
• That wealth is no wealth which brings dishonour.
• Whatever harm accrues of silence can be remedied. But whatever harm is done because of speech cannot be remedied.
• It is better to restrain your desires than to stretch your hand before others.
• A little that is burned because of honest labour is better than a larger amount gained through dishonest means.
• Guard well your secret.
• He who seeks more than what is necessary indulges in error.
• To oppress the weak is the worst tyranny.
• Do not bank on false hope, for that is the capital of the dead.
• A wise man takes a lesson even from a minor lapse.
• Overpower desire and suspicion by patience and faith.
• He who does not take the middle course strays.
• A stranger is he who has no friends.
• When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life.
• He who trusts the world the world betrays him.