Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!

If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!

Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Have you lost your way? Don't be sad; be happy, because you will see new places, places that you have never been to! It is magical to lose the way!

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!

If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!

If you are not discovered yet by the people, that is good, you can work better; if you are discovered already by the people, that is good, you can share your work better! It is good to be in the shadow, it is good to be in the light!

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

Science is the Noah's Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel!

He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!

Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

Being peaceful is being angel!

You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!