Chanakya Quotes (164 Quotes)

We should not grieve when we must inevitably part company from our dear ones.

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

Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.

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

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity When riches begin to forsake one even the accumulated stock dwindles away.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

He who has wealth has friends and relations he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman and garments become old through being left in the sun.

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.

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.