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Quotations from God (ALLAH)*...

  • Honor each other: "O mankind! We created you from a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know and honor each other (not that you should despise one another). Indeed the most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most righteous." Holy Qur'an, Chapter 49, Verse 13
  • God loves the kind: "God does not forbid you to be kind and equitable to those who have neither fought against your faith nor driven you out of your homes. In fact God loves the equitable." Holy Qur'an, Chapter 60, Verse 8
  • Reward for righteousness: "Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has faith, verily, to them will We give a new Life, a life that is good and pure, and We will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions." Holy Qur'an, Chapter 16, Verse 97
  • Forgiveness and justice: "Show forgiveness, speak for justice and avoid the ignorant." Holy Qur'an, Chapter 7, Verse 199
  • Honor one's parents: "Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none save Him, and show kindness to your parents. If one or both of them attain old age with thee, say not 'Fie' unto them or repulse them, but speak unto them a gracious word." Holy Qur'an, Chapter 17, Verses 23-24

Quotations from Imam Ali (PBUH)...

  • Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings
  • To miss what one needs is easier than to beg it from an unsuitable person.
  • The intellect is better than desire, for the intellect makes you a king over your destiny, and desire makes you a slave of your destiny.
  • Speak so that you may be known, since man is hidden under his tongue.
  • Do not talk about knowledge with the foolish so that they deny you, nor with the ignorant so that they find you oppressive, but talk about it with those of its people whom you meet who will accept it and understand it.

Quotations from Confucius...

  • It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
  • Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
  • Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
  • I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
  • It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
  • Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself

Quotations from Albert Einstein...

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge...
  • Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
  • I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Quotations about Wisdom, Success, Love...

  • Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
  • Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
  • Wise man learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
  • To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
  • Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
  • We can only learn to love by loving.
  • Love comes to those who believe it.
  • Love doesn't ask why...

*Quotations from God (ALLAH)

These quotations were taken from Ontario Consultants Religious Tolerance website: www.religioustolerance.org