15 Chanakya Quotes That Lead To A Successful And Meaningful Life.
He was no warrior, but he fought battles using his brain. His guiding principles are the secret to living a highly prosperous and successful life, only if one focuses on following them.
Acharya Chanakya popularly known as Vishnu Gupta or Kautilya is known as one of the greatest Indian Teachers, Strategists, Philosophers, and Economists that India witnessed. In this article, I have listed the most powerful Acharya Chanakya Neeti principles with a lot of life lessons for a person to follow in order to build in them a strong character which in turn would lead to a successful and meaningful life.
- The biggest guru mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
2. No one can defeat a powerful mind.
3. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
4. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
5. Never settle for anything less than what you deserve. It’s not pride, it’s self-respect.
6. Learn from the mistakes of others…you can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.
7. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
8. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
9. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
10. Just as a mirror reflects as a man's face his personality is reflected in his choice of friends. One must always be careful in forming friendships and acquaintances, for one’s friends, are in a way, an extension of one’s inner inclinations and tendencies.
11. If you were to choose between an evil person and a snake to keep company with, opt for the snake. Because the snake will bite you only in self-defense but the evil person will put a bite for any reason and any time or always.
12. There are only two ways of dealing with evil persons or thorns. Crush them under your boot or stay far away from them.
13. Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is the attachment that destroys all love.
14. Too much beauty got Sita kidnapped, too much ego got Ravana killed and too much charity got Raja Bali in deep trouble. So too much of anything is bad. One should refrain from ‘too much’.
15. Money comes and goes, so is the youth. Life goes and goes the soul, nothing lasts forever. The only thing that stays firm is your faith.
I hope these inspiring quotes of wisest political strategists of all time will help you in learning some important life lessons and lead a meaningful life. Please take a look at our other related articles LifeOrem and keep sharing with your relatives and friends to motivate them.
