Muhammad Ali Inspirational Quotes

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.

We can't be brave without fear.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

Impossible is nothing.

Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

Entrena mientras ellos duermen, estudia mientras ellos se divierten, persiste mientras ellos descansen y vive lo que ellos sueñan.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Nienawidziłem każdej minuty treningu, ale powtarzałem sobie - nie poddawaj się, przecierp teraz i żyj resztę życia jako mistrz - Muhammad Ali

Jeśli można było zrobić penicylinę ze spleśniałego chleba, to z ciebie też na pewno da się coś zrobić - Muhammad Ali

I never wanted to lose, never thought I would, but the thing that matters is how you lose. I’m not crying. My friends should not cry.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

is foolish to insist, as our leaders habitually do, that the violent acts of radical Islamists can be divorced from the religious ideals that inspire them. Instead we must acknowledge that they are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in Islam itself, in the holy book of the Qur’an as well as the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad contained in the hadith. Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali     Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray     All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.  - Walt Disney     Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali     Build

The man who has no imagination,has no wing

Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and political philosopher Ali Abd ar-Raziq (d. 1966) pointed to Muhammad’s community in Medina as proof that Islam advocated the separation of religious and temporal power, while Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and Iran have used the same community to fashion various models of Islamic theocracy. In their struggle for equal rights, Muslim feminists have consistently drawn inspiration from the legal reforms Muhammad instituted in Medina, while at the same time, Muslim traditionalists have construed those same legal reforms as grounds for maintaining the subjugation of women in Islamic society. For some, Muhammad’s actions in Medina serve as the model for Muslim-Jewish relations; for others, they demonstrate the insurmountable conflict that has always existed, and will always exist, between the two sons of Abraham. Yet regardless of whether one is labeled a Modernist or a Traditionalist, a reformist or a fundamentalist, a feminist or a chauvinist, all Muslims regard Medina as the model of Islamic perfection. Simply put, Medina is what Islam was meant to be.

No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali was the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them—or worse, who credibly rebut them—they are in danger of looking like fools.

If you have to run then learn from Bolt, if you have to fight watch Muhammad Ali`s jab and grab punches, if dunking with a basketball does it for you why not pull a Vince Carter or fly in like Michael Jordan , if science and evolution tickles your fancy have you read "Evolution" by Charles Darwin? Well, Like Martin Luther king said " If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." So pickup that broom , get started and stop complaining!

A broader danger of unverifiable beliefs is the temptation to defend them by violent means. People become wedded to their beliefs, because the validity of those beliefs reflects on their competence, commends them as authorities, and rationalizes their mandate to lead. Challenge a person’s beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali was the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad.

If you have to run then learn from Bolt, if you have to fight watch Muhammad Ali`s jab and grab punches, if dunking with a basketball does it for you why not pull a Vince Carter or fly in like Michael Jordan , if science and evolution tickles your fancy have you read "Evolution" by Charles Darwin? Well, Like Martin Luther king said " If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." So pickup that broom , get started and stop complaining!

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali   It's

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

If you think that your faults are slight, imagine someone else looking at them and think what he would say about them. Then you will feel shame and will know the measure of your faults, if you have the slightest discernment.

Remember that it is harder to tame the self than to tame wild beasts. In fact, when wild beasts are shut inside cages ordered for them by kings, they cannot harm you. But the self, even if it were put in a prison, could not be guaranteed to do you no harm.

To a well-born man, honour is dearer than gold. A well-born man should use his gold to protect his body, his body to protect his soul, his soul to protect his honour, and his honour to defend his religion. But he must never sacrifice his religion in defense of anything whatsoever.

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. —Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali Moustafa > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) “You haven’t seen Al-ma’gana (the building mud mixture) before?! Well, let me talk somewhat to you about it. how to make one! Try "The enjoyment of understanding", "The enjoyment of discovering" and "Astonishment Interpretation", and how can a simple writer like me, arouse such a great reader’s curiosity and arouse your interest? But don’t wait for the others to come and show you how to ask "questions" because this who manages your "mind", is exactly like the person who manages your "feelings". Put "a simple question" in every corner, yourself. Make your questions "lamps". Put a "flavor" in your lamp’s oil. Answers will come to you from all directions such as "Butterflies" - Muhammad Ali Moustafa - Put your Feet In Mud Qatar University Press «أنت لم تر "المعجنة" من قبل؟! حسنًا! سأحدثك، عنها قليلًا.. كيف تصنع واحدة!» جرِّب بنفسك معي: "متعة الفهم"، و"الكشف"، و"دهشة التأويل"، وكيف يمكن لكاتب بسيط مثلي، أن يبعث فضول قارئ عظيم مثلك، وأن يثير اهتمامك؟ لكن، لا تترقب غيرك، يأتي؛ ليضع لك الأسئلة! لأن من ينوب عنك في عقلك، كمن ينوب عنك في شعورك.. ضع بنفسك "سؤالًا صغيرًا" في كل زاوية.. اجعل أسئلتك "مصابيح".. ضع في زيت مصباحك نكهة.. ستأتيك "الإجابات"، من كل ناحية، فراشات.. من كتاب (ضع "رجلاك" في الطين)، دار نشر جامعة قطر

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