Best 29 quotes of Alexander The Great on MyQuotes

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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

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.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

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.

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

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

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

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.

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

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [Alexander's tombstone epitaph]

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Holy shadows of the dead, I am 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. [Addressing the dead Hellenes of the Battle of Chaeronea]

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. {His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!

Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." ― Alexander the Great

There are no more worlds to conquer!