Alexander the Great
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.Collection: Power
Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.Collection: Men
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.Collection: Success
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.Collection: Knowledge
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.Collection: Inspirational
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.Collection: Leadership
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.Collection: Great
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.Collection: Love
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.Collection: Nature
So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.Collection: Beauty
If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.Collection: Experience
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?Collection: Nature
His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.Collection: Design
Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?Collection: Home
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.Collection: Medical
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.Collection: Good
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.Collection: Teacher
In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.Collection: Done
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.Collection: Warrior
True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.Collection: Happy Endings
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.Collection: War
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.Collection: Hands
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.Collection: Short Life
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.Collection: Men
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.Collection: Revenge
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanishCollection: Attitude
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.Collection: Leaving
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.Collection: Leadership
Every light is not the sun.Collection: Light
But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.Collection: Would Be
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.Collection: Ends
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.Collection: World
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.Collection: Noble
God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.Collection: Moving
On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!Collection: Fighting
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.Collection: Kings
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.Collection: Two
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?Collection: Army
As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.Collection: Men
Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?Collection: World
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.Collection: Death
I do not steal victory.Collection: Army
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.Collection: Sex
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.Collection: Campaigns
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.Collection: Funny
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.Collection: Son
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.Collection: Brother
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.Collection: Army
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.Collection: Victory