Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Stick to the honesty and never leave it!

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!

It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

Not every man has shoes, so reduce the number of shoes at your home till every man has at least one!

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!

You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

A house without security cannot be a home!

Silent streets have many things to say.

Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

No fox is foxier than man!

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!

A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!