Chanakya Quotes

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Self, Interest

• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficulty, Relative, Adversity, Friend, Duty, Wife, Test

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Venomous, Poisonous, Snake

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Secrets, Biggest, Will

• 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 pr*st*tute in the night.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Love, Mother

  Tags in Husband, Good, Wife

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dealings, Trees, Forest

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fragrance, Direction, Goodness

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in God, Soul

  Tags in Present, Feelings

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attained, Spiritual, Happiness, Moving

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Honest

• 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

  Topics in Power, Truth

  Tags in Earth

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in King, Dog

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Happy

• 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

  Topics in Failure, Work

  Tags in People

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in 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.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Best, Friends

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

  Chanakya

  Topics in Beauty, Youth

  Tags in Friend

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Ahead

Chanakya (39)

Birth:	371 BC
Death:	283 BC
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Advisor, Philosopher, Teacher

About

Chanakya was born in a Brahmin family. He was an Indian teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor. He was a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra. Two books are attributed to Chanakya: Arthashastra and Chanakya Niti, also known as Chanakya Neeti-shastra.

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