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Top 180 Chanakya Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

Chanakya Quote: “As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

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

Featured in: Boldness Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Till the enemy’s weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.”

3. “Till the enemy’s weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.”

Featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.”

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

Featured in: Quotes About Feelings, Soul Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Good behavior wins even an enemy.”

5. “Good behavior wins even an enemy.”

Chanakya Quote: “Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

6. “Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Featured in: Strategy Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Quotes About Work, Purpose Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

Chanakya Quote: “Your feelings are your god.”

8. “Your feelings are your god.”

Featured in: Quotes About Feelings

Chanakya Quote: “A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

9. “A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

Featured in: Short Quotes, Values Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Greatness Quotes

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

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

Chanakya Quote: “He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.”

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

Featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Making Money Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

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

Featured in: Selfishness Quotes, Selfish People Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Enemies strike at weak points.”

13. “Enemies strike at weak points.”

Featured in: Fighting Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.”

14. “A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.”

Featured in: Personality Quotes, Values Quotes, Excellence Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

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

Featured in: Learning Quotes, Short Quotes, Study Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Featured in: Mindset Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”

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

Chanakya Quote: “Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

18. “Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

Featured in: Dedication Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

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

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Demotivational Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

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

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Demotivational Quotes, Corruption Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.”

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

Featured in: Personality Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About People, Different Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”

22. “Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”

Featured in: Time Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “There is no disease so destructive as lust.”

23. “There is no disease so destructive as lust.”

Chanakya Quote: “People’s Fury is above all the furies.”

24. “People’s Fury is above all the furies.”

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About Trust

Chanakya Quote: “A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.”

26. “A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.”

Featured in: Warrior Quotes, Revenge Quotes

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

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

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Chanakya Quote: “Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”

29. “Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”

Featured in: Scripture Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

Chanakya Quote: “Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.”

30. “Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.”

Featured in: Quotes About Trust, Toxic People Quotes, Trust No One Quotes, Fake Friends Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.”

31. “Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.”

Chanakya Quote: “Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.”

32. “Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.”

Chanakya Quote: “In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.”

33. “In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.”

Chanakya Quote: “A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.”

34. “A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.”

Chanakya Quote: “Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.”

35. “Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.”

Chanakya Quote: “Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.”

36. “Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.”

Chanakya Quote: “The disgrace of one’s people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.”

37. “The disgrace of one’s people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.”

Chanakya Quote: “Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.”

38. “Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.”

Featured in: Suffering Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.”

39. “Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.”

Chanakya Quote: “If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.”

40. “If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.”

Chanakya Quote: “He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.”

41. “He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.”

Featured in: Making Money Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.”

42. “The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.”

Chanakya Quote: “Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.”

43. “Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.”

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

44. “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.”

Chanakya Quote: “He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife’s conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.”

45. “He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife’s conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.”

Featured in: Blessed Family Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.”

46. “Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.”

Featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.”

47. “Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.”

Chanakya Quote: “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.”

48. “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.”

Featured in: Wealth Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present condition, because time has the power to change black coal into a shiny diamond.”

49. “Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present condition, because time has the power to change black coal into a shiny diamond.”

Featured in: Change Quotes, Adversity Quotes

Chanakya Quote: “Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.”

50. “Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.”

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