Ameen Rihani Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Ameen Rihani's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Writer Ameen Rihani's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 56 quotes on this page collected since November 24, 1876! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
All quotes by Ameen Rihani: Giving Goals Heart Revolution Soul Tradition more...
  • Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

    Light   Three   Source  
    Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press
  • Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

    Pride   Virtue   Cease  
    Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.158, Syracuse University Press
  • At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

    New York   Heart   Paris  
  • Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

    Men   Thinking   Self  
  • The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

  • In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

    Lakes   Light   Mankind  
  • Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

    Years   Repeats   Seasons  
  • We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

    Color   Class   Race  
  • You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

  • The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

  • Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

    Ameen Rihani (2012). “The Book of Khalid”, p.131, Melville House
  • In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

    Men   Humanity   Over You  
  • If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

  • My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

    Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”
  • To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

  • Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  • We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

  • I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

  • Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

  • I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

    Balance   Matter   Bigs  
    Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”
  • Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

    Doe   Matter   Ideals  
  • Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

  • An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

    Thinking   Sea   Pyramids  
    Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.26, Syracuse University Press
  • When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

    Depth   Height   Way  
  • What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

  • I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

  • I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

  • A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

    War   Golf   Play  
  • No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .

    Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.380, Syracuse University Press
  • The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 56 quotes from the Writer Ameen Rihani, starting from November 24, 1876! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!
    Ameen Rihani quotes about: Giving Goals Heart Revolution Soul Tradition