Ataturk Sayings - Ataturk Sayings About Sports, Science, Republic

The great leader Atatürk, one of the most sacred people for a nation, sheds light on society with his words. The great leader, who proved how farsighted he was years ago with his words, continued to guide with his words in many fields from art to science, from technology to sports. Even decades after his death, Atatürk's words continue to be the guide of our nation after Atatürk. Our leader stated what a nation needs with his words. Sometimes he gave encouragement and stated that this disease could overcome any difficulty if it wanted, sometimes he made warnings and told what our people should and should not do. In this state, Ataturk's words are still a path, a light that we must follow.

As a person who revitalized a state and was accepted as an ancestor, Mustafa Kemal gave guiding speeches on every issue our nation needed. In this way, we can use his words as a reference even years later and act in the right direction in the light of his words. Mustafa Kemal, who had wise words on subjects such as sports and music, also shed light on our day with his words on international relations. Our ancestor, who passed on his wealth of knowledge to future generations with 3997 books he read and 9 books he wrote, is also the father of many mathematical terms used today. For this reason, Atatürk's aphorisms are still valued and serve as a guide for our nation. Mustafa Kemal, who impressed himself with his knowledge, proved his rationality and foresight with his words.

Atatürk's Sayings on Sports

Atatürk, who had a say in many subjects from mathematics to oratory, from international relations to state administration, also had very relevant and logical sentences about sports. Atatürk's words about sports are about what an athlete should be. He argued that a good athlete can never be determined solely by his actions in sports. Atatürk's words about sports and athletes indicate that the athlete must be complete morally, physically and spiritually. We have compiled quotes about Ataturk and sports for you!

• In order to be successful in sports, it is necessary for the whole nation to understand the nature and value of sports, to be attached to it with love from the heart and to consider it as a national duty.
• The clear aim of our policy is to raise a happy and strong generation that is based on the foundations of positive sciences, loves fine arts, and whose abilities have increased and improved in physical training as well as intellectual training.
• The Turkish nation is a sportsman from birth. You will even see village children who have just started walking wrestling in the threshing floors. Turkish men are not the only ones who ride horses the most and best; Turkish women also know this job.
• Turkey, which is in the most beautiful geographical situation and is surrounded by seas on three sides, has the ability to raise the most advanced maritime nation with its industry, trade and sports. We must know how to benefit from this ability.
• A society cannot change its color and strength through sports alone. It is necessary to implement initiatives and measures aimed at ensuring many of the sanitary, social and civil requirements and conditions prevailing there.
• Let me say clearly and definitively that, in order to be successful in sports, rather than any kind of help, the whole nation must understand the nature and value of sports, and it is necessary to consider it as a love in the heart and a patriotic duty.

Atatürk's Sayings About Science

The great leader Atatürk shed light on society with his words about science. Our leader, who advocated that war should be fought not only militarily but also against other countries scientifically, made a name for himself with the importance he attached to science. Even in the difficult days when the war had just been won and the nation was trying to recover both materially and spiritually, Ataturk's words about the importance he gave to reason and science left their mark on the period. Ataturk started his efforts to immediately turn the nation towards education, and Ataturk's words about science began to influence the nation. We compiled Atatürk's statements about science!

• The truest guide in life is science.
• We will take science and science from wherever they are and put it into the minds of every individual of the nation.
• Do you know where is the secret of the victory that defeated the enemy who trampled the most prosperous, most beautiful and most beautiful places of our country with their dirty feet for three and a half years? To take science and scientific principles as a guide in the management of armies. We will follow the same path in establishing our schools and colleges, which are the basis for educating our nation.
• Yes; Science and science will be our guide in the political and social life of our nation and in the intellectual education of our nation.
• Ideas can never be killed by force, violence, cannon or rifle!
• All progress is the work of human thought. Our first job should be to put the idea into action. Once the nation can control itself and think, that's enough! Even though he thinks wrongly at first, he can correct this mistake after a while. Once the idea is operational, everything gradually falls into order and improves.
• My spiritual heritage is knowledge and wisdom. What I want to do and what I try to achieve for the Turkish nation is obvious. If those who want to adopt me after me accept the guidance of reason and science on this basic axis, they will become my spiritual heirs.

Atatürk's Sayings on the Republic

The value Atatürk gave to the republic is understood from the fact that he commemorated the day when the republic was declared as a holiday and presented it to the Turkish nation. The republic, which is taken as the gain of a nation at the end of its struggle for independence, is crowned with Ataturk's words about the republic.

• The Republic requires generations with free thoughts, free understanding, and free conscience.
• Teachers! The Republic demands from you generations with free thought, free conscience, and free wisdom.
• The victory of our armies paved the way for the victory of your training armies. You, the teachers, will win the real victory. I have no doubt that you will achieve this. My friends and I will watch over you with unshakable faith. We will break all the obstacles you face.
• A community definitely needs educators and teachers in order to become a nation. They are the ones who turn society into a real nation.
• Two armies are needed to bring our country to its real goal and true happiness: One is the military army that saves our country, the other is the army of wisdom (science, culture) that shapes the future of our nation.
• Those who save nations are only teachers.
• Teachers! We will follow you with unwavering faith and remove all the obstacles you face.

Atatürk's Sayings About Art

Ataturk gave as much importance to art as he did to science. Atatürk's words about art have been compiled for you!

• The criterion for the renewal of a nation is its ability to perceive and comprehend the change in music.
• If a nation is deprived of art and artists, it cannot have a full life. A nation's artistic talent is measured by the value it attaches to fine arts.
• A nation that does not paint, a nation that does not make sculptures, a nation that does not do what technology requires, must admit that that nation has no place on the path of progress.
• An artist is the first person in society to feel the light on his forehead after long efforts and work.
• Another historical characteristic of the Turkish Nation, which is a high human community, is to love fine arts and excel in them.
• The criterion for the renewal of a nation is its ability to perceive and comprehend the change in music.