Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!