Muhammad Sutton > Muhammad's Quotes

“Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed”
― David Goggins

“We must take time to weep for our fallen compañeros while we sharpen our machetes”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized Edition

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
― Huey P. Newton

“...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
― Malcolm X

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits to what can be attained.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”
― Zig Ziglar

“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
― Zig Ziglar

“The self is like a child that is in need of discipline. If you leave it without disciplining it, it will run wild and lead to the destruction of your life. However, if you discipline it and continuously put it in its place, it will eventually become totally obedient.”
― Muhammad Sutton

“اندم على ما مضى من تفريطك، واجتهد في لحاق الكاملين، ما دام في الوقت سعة، واسق غصنك ما دامت فيه رطوبة، واذكر ساعاتك التي ضاعت، فكفى بها عظة، ذهبت لذة الكسل فيها، وفاتت مراتب الفضائل”
― ابن الجوزي

“ليست الفضائل الكاملة إلا الجمع بين العلم والعمل، فإذا حصلا رفعا صاحبهما إلى تحقيق معرفة الخالق سبحانه وتعالى، وحركاه إلى محبته وخشيته والشوق إليه، فتلك الغاية القصوى، وعلى قدر أهل العزم تأتي العزائم، وما تقف همة إلا لخساستها، وإلا فمتى علت الهمة لم تقنع بدون.”
― ابن الجوزي

“حب الراحة يورث من الندم ما يربو على كل لذة”
― ابن الجوزي

“والخوف من الله تعالى يكون محموداً ، ويكون غير محمود . فالمحمود ما كانت غايته أن يحول بينك وبين معصية الله بحيث يحملك على فعل الواجبات وترك المحرمات ، فإذا حصلت هذه الغاية سكن القلب واطمأن وغلب عليه الفرح بنعمة الله ، والرجاء لثوابه . وغير المحمود ما يحمل العبد على اليأس من روح الله والقنوط وحينئذ يتحسر العبد وينكمش وربما يتمادى في المعصية لقوة يأسه”
― محمد بن صالح العثيمين, شرح ثلاثة الأصول

“واعلم أن الرجاء المحمود لا يكون إلا لمن عمل بطاعة الله ورجا ثوابها ، أو تاب من معصيته ورجا قبول توبته ، فأما الرجاء بلا عمل فهو غرور وتمن مذموم”
― محمد بن صالح العثيمين, شرح ثلاثة الأصول