Turkish Quotes Quotes

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

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan