Chanakya Quote: Share all the best Quotes by Chanakya with your family and friends
- 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.
- Whores don’t live in company of poor men, birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.
- Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one’s livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.
- A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
- Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
- 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.
- 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.
- O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
- 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.
- 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.
- As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue, and wealth gradually obtained.
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
- Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats beauty and youth.
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
- God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
- He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
- If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don’t hesitate.
- In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live as kings do. And in a state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live as beggars do.
- Jealousy is another name for failure.
- Never go on a long journey alone.
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search for pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search for knowledge.
- The biggest guru mantra is: “Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you”.
- The four greatest enemies of a man are – the father who has taken a loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife, and the stupid child.
- The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
- The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
- The biggest guru mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. it will destroy you. if you cannot keep your secrets with you then how can you trust others to keep them secret?
- The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sunshine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
- A rich man has many friends.
- A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave, and eight times as lusty as a man.
