Turkish Literature Quotes

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

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

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

Mehmet Murat ildan

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

Mehmet Murat ildan

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Mehmet Murat ildan

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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