Chanakya famous quotes

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
-- Chanakya

#Integrity #Men #Deeds

There is no disease so destructive as lust.
-- Chanakya

#Lust #Disease

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
-- Chanakya

#Integrity #Cutting #People

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
-- Chanakya

#Life #Karma #Being Alone

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
-- Chanakya

#Greatness #Men #Eagles

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
-- Chanakya

#Judging #Black #Coal

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
-- Chanakya

#Sister #Mother #Morning

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
-- Chanakya

#Beauty #Youth #Beats

Your feelings are your god.
-- Chanakya

#Positivity #Feelings

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Stupid #Book

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Flower #Wind

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Secret #Guru

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
-- Chanakya

#Successful #Thinking #Three

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
-- Chanakya

#Trying #Poison #Ruins

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
-- Chanakya

#Integrity #Past #Men

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Husband #Wife

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
-- Chanakya

#Country #Mother #Skills

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
-- Chanakya

#Light #Secret #Ordinary

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Snakes #Should

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
-- Chanakya

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Emotion

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
-- Chanakya

#Beauty #Wisdom #World

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
-- Chanakya

#Friendship #Happiness #Wisdom

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.
-- Chanakya

#Political #Enemy #Sides

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
-- Chanakya

#Political #Enemy #Trusted

He who has wealth has friends.
-- Chanakya

#Wealth

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
-- Chanakya

#Encouraging #People #Motivational Work

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
-- Chanakya

#Son #Giving #Cows

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
-- Chanakya

#Men #Eight #Two

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.
-- Chanakya

#Rain #Fall #Sea

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Men #Class

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
-- Chanakya

#Mother #Wisdom #Men

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
-- Chanakya

#Children #Kids #Years

Education beats the beauty and the youth.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Youth #Beats

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
-- Chanakya

#God #Idols #Soul

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
-- Chanakya

#Heart #Two #Unseen

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
-- Chanakya

#Husband #Cuckoos #Ugly

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Cutting #Tree

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
-- Chanakya

#Grief #Son #Fire

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Men #Secret

Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
-- Chanakya

#Husband #Wife #Fool

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
-- Chanakya

#Wise #Wisdom #Secret

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
-- Chanakya

#Learning #Men #Way

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
-- Chanakya

#Dog #Kings #Children

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
-- Chanakya

#Men #Effort #Done

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
-- Chanakya

#Wife #Crow #Unions

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
-- Chanakya

#Grief #Giving #Wife

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
-- Chanakya

#Spiritual #Men #Wife

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
-- Chanakya

#Years #Religion #May

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Long #Healthy

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
-- Chanakya

#Sweet #Two #Voice

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
-- Chanakya

#Wisdom #Kings #Community

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
-- Chanakya

#Family #Son #Tree

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
-- Chanakya

#Men #Religion #Desire

Although an ***** is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
-- Chanakya

#Tired #Three #Heat

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
-- Chanakya

#Men #Support #Bird

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
-- Chanakya

#Kings #Home #Practice

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
-- Chanakya

#Mother #Wisdom #Journey

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
-- Chanakya

#Heart #Men #House

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
-- Chanakya

#Running #Wisdom #Men

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
-- Chanakya

#Beautiful #Men #Ugly

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
-- Chanakya

#Family #Education #Grief

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
-- Chanakya

#Grief #Loss #Causes

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
-- Chanakya

#Book #Needs #Use

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Wise #Men

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
-- Chanakya

#Giving Up #Giving #Pleasure

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.
-- Chanakya

#Political #Enemy #Weak

The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.
-- Chanakya

#Hurt #People #Political

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
-- Chanakya

#Men #Political #Ruins

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
-- Chanakya

#Wise #Crazy #Insane

If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
-- Chanakya

#Country #Political #Trying

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
-- Chanakya

#Political #Enemy #Friendly

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
-- Chanakya

#People #Political #Sorrow