Anwar Sadat Quotes

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.