Turkish Quotations Quotes & Sayings

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm! — 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

It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is democracy? If it is the rule of the majority, ignoring the rest, then it is not good, it is very bad! But if it is the rule of the whole citizens, caring the wills of both the majority and the rest, then it is good, then it is real democracy! And the purpose of every real democracy is to be a modern country, to be a modern structure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don't be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian. — Dorothy Dunnett

Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day! — Mehmet Murat Ildan