Quotes by Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

Friendship

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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

Courage

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

— Chanakya

Truth

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

— Chanakya

Life

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

Success

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

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Chanakya

Friendship

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

Success

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

— Chanakya

Friendship

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

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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.

— Chanakya

Happiness

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

Love

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

Friendship

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.

— Chanakya

Wisdom

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

— Chanakya

Wisdom

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

— Chanakya

Truth

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

— Chanakya

Courage

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

— Chanakya

Happiness