"Hold on to your Salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"He who wins through fraud is not a winner."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"He who does now know evil will fall into it."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The person I like most is the one who points out my defects."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Fear him, whom you hate."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Do not overeat; that invites disease."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Money cannot help lifting its head."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The less of the World, the freer you live."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Be dignified, honest and truthful."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"The wisest man is he who can account for his actions."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)

"Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man."

— Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)