Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan