Ildan Wisdom Quotes

Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is Atatürk, an immortal revolutionist!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan