Alexander the Great Quotes
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At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
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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.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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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.
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Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?
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There are no more worlds to conquer!
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
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I do not steal victory.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
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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.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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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.
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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?
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In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
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I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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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.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
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With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish
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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
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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.
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Every light is not the sun.
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