35 Quotes by Anwar Sadat

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive toward new ho