Quotes by Wisdom Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other. Hyrum W. Smith wisdomsuccesspeace Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Hyrum W. Smith wisdomsuccesspeace This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. Horace wisdomprayerspring Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. Ian Lowe learningwisdomeducation Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison. Henry David Thoreau wisdomspiritualbelieve To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it. Henry David Thoreau wisdomtruthwriting My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You. Ibn al-Farid islamicgardenwisdom Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self. Ibn Ata Allah islamicwisdomself When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself. Ibn Hazm healthwisdominspirational One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good. Ibn Majah rewardsislamicwisdom We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others. Ibn Sirin islamicwisdomtalking Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. Ibn Taymiyyah betrayalwisdomspiritual Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart. Ibn Arabi islamicwisdomheart Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage. Ibn Hazm islamicwisdomjustice What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr. Ibn Taymiyyah islamicwisdomheart Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator. Ibn Hazm ignoredislamicwisdom If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number. Ibn Hazm islamicwisdomchildren Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you. Ibn Hazm islamicwisdomworld If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire. Ibn Ata Allah islamicwisdomreligion If your pride leads you to boast, Ibn Hazm islamicpridewisdom«8182838485868788899091»
