Chanakya

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

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.

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

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.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

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

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is insearch of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

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

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

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

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

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.