Inspirational Quotes by Mehmet Murat ildan — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“What is success? You opened a door, entered a pitch-dark place, and left plenty of light behind when you walked out that door, that's success!”

“Don't you have an audience? Are you upset? Stop nonsense like emotional collapse, be your own audience! Do not leave your progress in your life to the discretion and help of others, move forward in any situation!”

“Sometimes a voice inside you says, "You've worked hard, stop and rest"; sometimes another voice inside you says, "Never stop, keep working even if you're dead tired!" And you know what, most of the big successes come when you listen to this second voice!”

“We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!”

“On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!”

“If one day you see a witch riding a flying broomstick, it's merely an illusion created in your mind by the culture you live in. And if one day you see a helping hand reaching out from the heavens, thinking a white-bearded being has heard your prayers and rushed to your aid, that too is just a cultural illusion!”

“Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!”

“Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them!”

“La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!”

“Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!”

“Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!”

“Show me a religion that will keep me in this existence forever, and I will support it! But if the religion you're talking about is something that will kill me first and then bring me back to life, then I'd say knock on another door and sell your fairy tales to someone else!”

“Are you searching for a religion outside yourself? Forget it, look within. Do you have a good conscience and good morals? Then there's no need to cling to other religions and burden yourself with unnecessary rules; you already possess the best religion!”

“Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!”

“To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!”

“Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!”

“For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!”

“I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!”

“Look at the faces of hopeless people, as if they're frozen, their stares blank, their postures empty, their terrifying silence, as if they don't exist in this world! But remember, no one can overcome hopelessness by simply standing like a statue and doing nothing! If you have no hope left, go find it now; without it, you can't exist!”

“Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!”

“In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!”

“You can achieve a significant success by showing yourself to be completely different, but you cannot derive inner happiness from that success because you know well who you really are!”

“If you feel sadness at the sun setting in someone else's world while it rises in yours, my friend, then you are truly a righteous person, because you are a holy man whose own happiness is never enough, who desires the happiness of others as well!”

“To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!”

“In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!”

“Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!”

“Look, my friend, never forget this, if life puts a wonderful calmness in front of you, know that it wants you to save energy and rest for the coming storm, take advantage of this opportunity!”

“My friend, why are you rushing on a peaceful road? Slow down! Why are you moving slowly on a chaotic road? Speed up! You speed up in heaven, you slowdown in hell! Do the opposite!”

“Like people who gain momentum by squatting down, you too can use every downward movement in life as an opportunity to jump up further!”

“Have you ever seen a bird standing still for too long? A short rest and then action again, that's how a bird lives and that's how you should live too!”

“You may suddenly be enlightened by an unexpected light! What prevents hope from being completely lost is the genius and grace of life to create surprising help almost from nothing! But remember that life decides to give this help based on your faith and determination!”

“Reduce the number of items in your home; reduce the crowds around you; reduce the thoughts in your head. There are so many things around you and in your mind, they're all like curtains, preventing you from seeing what's around you, in front of you, behind you, left and right. Reduce these as much as you can, get rid of them as much as you can! Simplify and clarify your surroundings and your mind, let the universe see you, and you the universe! There's so much fog around you; clear it away!”

“If you are a pure-hearted person and something you persistently want is not happening, instead of getting discouraged, lift your spirits by seeing it this way: Something else, probably something better and right for you, is on its way.”

“When you make time for yourself, you are giving yourself the motivation to make time for others!”

“Those who have come down will not ask you any questions because they came from below and know both above and below. But you, put aside your arrogance while you are climbing the stairs of life, ask those who have come down about what is above because they have been there, where you have not yet gone!”

“The less you wait for trains that don't arrive at your station, the more you extend your life!”

“There are things you're waiting for in life, and then there are things waiting for you in life! The whole problem arises when these are different things.”

“When life, or rather reality, flashes a red light at you – and you don't have the power to change that reality – stop!”

“To shape the world for the better, first shape yourself for the better! And to shape yourself for the better, first question the forces that shaped you before – your family, education, society, culture!”

“The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!”

“With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!”

“Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!”

“Face the truth or the truth will face you!”

“If you close your wings, you cannot fly; you will fall. Your wings are your mind; wisdom means having giant wings, and giant wings will carry you to the highest heights!”

“When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!”

“On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!”

“Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!”

“Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.”

“If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!”

“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!”

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”

“You keep asking, ‘Is there a God?’ What are you going to do? Whether there is or isn't, mind your own business! If there is a God, will you play the good guy to please him? If there isn't a God, will you play the bad guy, thinking you won't be punished? Whether God exists or not, you are what you are! Mind your own business! You're wasting your time wondering whether God exists or not!”

“God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God’s help!”

“The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!”

“He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!”

“Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!”