J. K. Bharavi Quotes

#1. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

J. K. Bharavi

#2. Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

J. K. Bharavi

#3. As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

J. K. Bharavi

#4. The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

J. K. Bharavi

#5. Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

J. K. Bharavi

#6. Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

J. K. Bharavi

#7. The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

J. K. Bharavi

#8. The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

J. K. Bharavi