Turkish Quotations Quotes

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan