Mustafa Quotes & Sayings

Take your OWN time,But not MINE. — Shaikh Mustafa

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization. — Mustafa Akyol

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport? — Isaiah Mustafa

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them. — Isaiah Mustafa

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook. — Isaiah Mustafa

Science is the only true guide in life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

DONT praise her lovely EYES,
UNLESS you have a LOVELY FACE. — Shaikh Mustafa

Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"]. — Catie Marron

It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless. — Mustafa SULTAN

LIFE is simply COMPLICATED. — Shaikh Mustafa

Her name was Zenobia and she was a descendant of Cleopatra. She — Nujeen Mustafa

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do. — Isaiah Mustafa

Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the community have been endowed with reason and free will by their Creator and that they have no certain knowledge of what were/are the Creator's intentions. - Leonard Binder, Islamic Liberalism — Mustafa Akyol

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

WATCHING THE CITY, WE WERE also watching warily for an Iraqi sniper known as Mustafa. From the reports we heard, Mustafa was an Olympics marksman who was using his skills against Americans and Iraqi police and soldiers. Several videos had been made and posted, boasting of his ability. I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him. — Chris Kyle

Our true mentor in life is science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Harbord and his mission arrived in Sivas on 20 September. They were told by Mustafa Kemal that Turkey realized that it needed the aid of an impartial foreign country. 'After all our experience we are sure that America is the only country able to help us,' Mustafa Kemal acknowledged in a statement on 15 October. — Andrew Mango

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

All POOR wish to become RICH,
BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. — Shaikh Mustafa

The newly created Darth Vader flexes his Force-muscle as the Emperor's enforcer to maintain order and obedience in a galaxy reeling from civil war and the destruction of the Jedi Order. To the galaxy at large, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker - the Chosen One - died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, the was true - Anakin was dead. But from the site of Anakin Skywalker's last stand - on the molten surface of the planet Mustafa, where he sought to destroy his friend and former master, Obi-Wan Kanobi - a fearsome spectre in black has risen. Once the most powerful Knight ever known to the Jedi order he is not a disciple of the dark side, a lord of the dreaded Sith, and the avenging right hand of the galaxy's ruthless new Emperor. Seduced, deranged and destroyed by the machinations of the Dark Lord Sidious, Anakin Skywalker is dead ... and Darth Vader lives ... — James Luceno

Peace at Home, Peace in the World — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. — Isaiah Mustafa

WHAT did the man tell the ALIEN ?
I AM A DOWN TO EARTH PERSON. — Shaikh Mustafa

I've been acting since 2002, around about there. — Isaiah Mustafa

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football. — Isaiah Mustafa

No country is free unless it is democratic. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Freedom and independence form my character. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

According to Mustafa Elhussein, secretary of a center for Muslim intellectuals known as the Ibn Khaldun Society, "There is a great deal of bitterness that such groups have tarnished the reputation of mainstream Muslims" because "self-appointed leaders . . . spew hatred toward America and the West and yet claim to be the legitimate — Craig Unger

Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers. — Mustafa Akyol

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Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

What a lovely drink this is, it makes one want to be a poet — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be. — Isaiah Mustafa

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it. — Isaiah Mustafa

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I just like making people laugh. — Isaiah Mustafa

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it. — Louis De Bernieres

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.
When you see people, you sympathize their existence. — Mustafa SULTAN

COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST. — Shaikh Mustafa

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship. — Isaiah Mustafa

It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that. — Mustafa Akyol

I think commercials are something that everyone does to get out there and get a little bit of exposure, get their feet wet, and also pay the bills. So anytime you can be a part of a wonderful, fun commercial, that's just a bonus. — Isaiah Mustafa

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC. — Isaiah Mustafa

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism. — Mustafa Akyol

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty. — Mustafa Akyol

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them. — Mustafa Akyol

Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious. — Isaiah Mustafa

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe. — Mustafa Akyol

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Freedom and independence is my character. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran. — Mustafa Akyol

I left him and took myself off, having become certain about a fact which was later on to cost me much peace of mind: that in one form or another I was in love with Hosna Bint Mahmoud, the widow of Mustafa Sa'eed, and that I - like him and Wad Rayyes and millions of others - was not immune from the germ of contagion that oozes from the body of the universe. — Tayeb Salih

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back. — Mustafa Akyol

I do date quite frequently. — Isaiah Mustafa

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch. — Isaiah Mustafa

Persons, who knows that, that they will not be able to rest along the way when they took a path, will never get tired. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Old Spice, the seventy-five-year-old brand of men's grooming products, had begun to lose market share in the body wash category as the market became more and more crowded. Under the direction of the digital agency Wieden+Kennedy, the brand's manufacturer, Procter & Gamble, aimed to change how women (who were buying more than half of the body wash products) felt about their men wearing "lady-scented body wash." The video campaign called "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like," starring Isaiah Mustafa, was launched online in July 2010 during Super Bowl weekend. On the first day, the campaign received almost 6 million views. After the first week, Old Spice had 40 million views. Traffic to their website was up 300% and Facebook fan interaction was up 800%. Within six months, the campaign generated 1.4 billion impressions. — Bernadette Jiwa

As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright. — Abu Bakr

The Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ... nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love ... ' — Muhammad Asad

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. — Mustafa Akyol

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not. — Mustafa Akyol

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Turkey's true master is the peasant. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish. — Isaiah Mustafa

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner. — Mustafa Akyol

PEOPLE always REMEMBER to FORGET ME. — Shaikh Mustafa

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Science is the most reliable guide in life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd. — Mustafa SULTAN

When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing. — Isaiah Mustafa

Everybody says I am NOBODY,
and you know NOBODY is Perfect. — Shaikh Mustafa

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that. — Isaiah Mustafa

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa — Asne Seierstad

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk