Best Talib Quotes & Sayings

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The best revenge is to improve yourself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums. — Talib Kweli

Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together. — Talib Kweli

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I remember looking back on a photo of me ... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits. — Talib Kweli

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. — Talib Kweli

The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water. — Khaled Talib

Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road. — Talib Kweli

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story. — Malala Yousafzai

Silence is the best reply to a fool. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of
his mind. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. — Talib Kweli

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all. — Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. — Talib Kweli

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense — Talib Kweli

The best companion and helper is admirable morals. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The value of a person is what he does best. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art. — Talib Kweli

The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast. — Talib Kweli

You are as much able as you know — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent. — Talib Kweli

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a
strange land. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. — Talib Kweli

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss. — Talib Kweli

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words. — Khaled Talib

Justice is putting everything in its proper place — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too. — Talib Kweli

Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the here-after as if you will die tomorrow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib