Quotes from Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

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.

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.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

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.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

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.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I do not pilfer victory.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

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?

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.