Chanakya Quotes

Indian - Politician 350 BC - 275 BC

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.

Good Morning Mother Sister

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

Good Flowers Wind Direction

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

Beauty Education Friend Best

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

You Never Secrets Your Will

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.

Dog Fool King Sleep

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

People Trees Person First

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.

Good Alone Man Hell

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.

Work Yourself Think You

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.

Work Failure People You

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

Friendship Happiness Friends People

Top 10
Chanakya
Quotes

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship Truth Behind Without

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

Fear Destroy Attack Soon Near

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

Mirror Stupid Blind Person

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Life Dog Man End

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.

Man Lion Effort Done

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Great Man Birth Deeds

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.

Family Fear Be Happy Grief

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

Family Son Tree Forest

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.

Friend Best Children Time

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Heart Mind Speech Rise

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

Thought Wise You Doing

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Happiness Mind Mercy Like

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.

You Forest Down Trees

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

Beauty Power Woman World Youth

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

Snake Pretend Should Even

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Fly Man Mouth Poison

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