Top 180 Amish Tripathi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “As it often happens, the very reason for your success, over a prolonged period of time, can lead to your downfall.”

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152. “Desire creates attachment. Attachment to this world. And, when you don’t get what you want or get what you don’t want, it leads to suffering. And that to violence and wars. Which finally results in destruction. So, if you want to avoid destruction and suffering, you should control your desire right? Give up maya, the illusion of this world?”

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153. “Tell me this is not true. Just say it and I will believe you, regardless of what anyone else says.”

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154. “Withholding the truth is different from lying.”

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155. “Freedom of speech was curtailed so that verbal violence could also be controlled. Disagreement was discouraged. This is how the Bhaaratas felt that heaven could be created on earth; by making strength powerless, and weakness powerful.”

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156. “Stability allows a person the freedom of choice, my friend. People can pursue their dreams only when they are living in a society where survival is not threatened on a daily basis.”

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157. “The law cannot be broken. It is supreme, more important than you or me.”

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158. “Flexibility in a society allows change, so that all its members have the space to discover their true selves and grow to their potential. And if every person in a society achieves his true potential, society as a whole also achieves its true potential.”

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159. “The difference between the Gods whom we worship and us is that they have discovered the God with in, while we are still at it.”

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160. “If you compromise the prospects of the strong, and lean too much towards the interests of the weak, then your society itself goes into decline.”

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161. “And most of the times, the rebellions were not led by farsighted men who thought they would create a better way of life for the common man. They were led by men discontented with their lot in life.”

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162. “Happiness is like a drug. The ultimate drug. It makes you accept life as it is. Just inject the drug into your mind, be blissed out and don’t achieve anything, don’t change anything. Just be a joyful idiot.”

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163. “God of Gods. Destroyer of Evil. Passionate lover. Fierce warrior. Consummate dancer. Charismatic leader. All-powerful, yet incorruptible. A quick wit, accompanied by an equally quick and fearsome temper. Over the centuries, no foreigner who came to our land – conqueror, merchant, scholar, ruler, traveller – believed that such a great man could possibly have existed in reality. They assumed that he must have been a mythical God, whose.”

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164. “Too much of anything creates an imbalance in life. This is true even of virtues such as nonviolence. You never know when the winds of change strike; when violence may be required to protect your society, or to even survive.”

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165. “When times change, as they inevitably do, one finds it impossible to give up on one’s faith; in fact, one clings to it with renewed vigour. Difficult times make men cling to their faith even more strongly.”

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166. “I’m not a fan of everything that our ancestors did. But some practices are worth reviving. One of them is looking upon marriage as a sacred partnership between two souls; not as a political alliance between two power centres.”

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167. “Blood shall always be answered with blood.”

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168. “Darkness does not win because it is strong. It wins because the lamps stop fighting.”

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169. “Great does not mean good, Sita. Great only means the person makes a real impact on the world. Ordinary people do not impact the world, they are only impacted by it. Now, with great people, the impact can be good or bad. But know this: Happy people can never be great.”

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170. “If we can actually put some thought into our concept of charity, we can finally pay heed to the wise Vidur from the Mahabharat. He said that there are two ways to waste money. One is by giving money or charity to the unworthy. And the other is by not giving it to the worthy.”

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171. “Hate is love turned bad.”

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172. “The difference between two dissimilar ways of life gets portrayed as a fight between good and evil. Just.”

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173. “We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us;.”

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174. “People are happy when their life changes for the better. But there are two situations in which change can lead to chaos. First, when people face a change imposed by others, in situations that they cannot understand. This scares them almost as much as the fear of death. When change happens too fast, they resist it.”

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175. “The fortunate ones die with their loved ones around them.”

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176. “If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want.”

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177. “You live in Ram’s kingdom, hold your head high. Fight for justice. Treat all as equal. Protect the weak. Know that dharma is above all. Hold your head high, You live in the kingdom of Ram.”

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178. “People should be allowed to do whatever they wish.’ ‘Then there will be chaos,’ shouted Daksha. ‘Your stupidity is even more apparent than your immoral values!”

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179. “A man does not become a father merely through his body. A man earns the privilege of fatherhood with his protection, his care, his ability to provide. A man earns fatherhood by being worthy of emulation. A man earns fatherhood through love.”

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180. “The second is when people cannot make the transition they want in order to improve their lives for reasons beyond their control.”

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181. “He had read somewhere that there was nothing worse than unrequited love. But they were wrong. There was something worse: Unrequited love that was not even aware of it being one-sided.”

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182. “As he sat down, he breathed in deeply and let the tranquil atmosphere suffuse him with its serenity. And then it happened. The moment that every unrealised heart craves for. The unforgettable instant that a soul, clinging on to the purest memory of its previous life, longs for. The moment which, in spite of a conspiracy of the gods, only a few lucky men experience. The moment when she enters his life.”

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183. “Har Har Mahadev!’ yelled the Suryavanshis. They were gods! Mere stones wouldn’t stop them.”

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184. “People who only listen to their hearts usually fail. On the other hand, people who only use their heads tend to be selfish. Only the heart can make you think of others before yourself. For the sake of dharma, you must aim for equality and balance in society. Perfect equality can never be achieved but we must try to reduce inequality as much as we can.”

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185. “Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish.”

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186. “A profusion of Ashok trees, especially around the cottages in the centre, established the literal intent of the nomenclature. But there was more. The old Sanskrit word for grief was shok. Hence, ashok meant no grief. This garden, this Ashok Vatika, was an oasis of happiness, joy, even bliss. But Indians are philosophical by nature; therefore, naturally, they also have a penchant for digging deeper. And ashok can also mean ‘to not feel grief’.”

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187. “Grief can provide the fuel for greatness, but it can also be the trigger for evil.”

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188. “That’s something for another story, another book.”

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189. “Everyone is struggling. I suppose we must try to understand and learn rather than judge.”

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190. “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings”.”

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191. “There’s nothing worse than being married to the wrong person. You should only get married if you find someone you admire, who will help you understand and fulfil your life’s purpose. And you, in turn, can help her fulfil her life’s purpose. If you’re able to find that one person, then marry her.”

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192. “Truth is one but the wise men speak it as many.”

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193. “There is no sight more magnificent than a dangerous and powerful man, with complete control over his own base desires, who also has an innate yearning for justice and a deep, abiding love for his land and his people.”

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194. “Marxists famously espouse, ‘Religion is the opium of the masses.’ Honestly, I find that assertion ironic and silly, because Marxism itself often behaves like a religion. Its adherents frequently prefer dogma over intellectual rigour in forming their opinions.”

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195. “But chess is a representation of real life. How you play chess says a lot about how you live as well.”

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196. “All of us have been through times when life seemed unfair. In such situations, we can choose to see ourselves as victims and blame the rest of the world. We can drown ourselves in the false comfort of knowing we are not responsible for our difficulties and expect others to change our lives. Or, we can pick ourselves up. Be strong. And fight the world.”

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197. “The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know: water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age: violence.”

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198. “When two elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”

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199. “Sometimes one needs a little bit of faith when faced with a difficult situation. Rational answers don’t always work. We also need a miracle.”

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