Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

What is your big project in the New Year? You don’t have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!

In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!

Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!

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!

A new world order can only be created if we establish an order where the powerful wolf cannot eat the weak lamb!

The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is Atatürk, an immortal revolutionist!

In life there are times where you have to behave like twilight streets: Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even dream, just be silent and wait for the light to shine on you!

The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!

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

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

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

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!

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

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!

Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!

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!

You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!

Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

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!

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!

Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

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

The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!

You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!

Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!

Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!

Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!

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!

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

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!

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

The joy of life is being able to do the things we wish to do!