Turkish Literature Quotes

Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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