“How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”
- Alexander Pope Quotes
- Alexander Hamilton Quotes
- Alex Ferguson Quotes
- Aldous Huxley Quotes
- Albert Schweitzer Quotes
“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.”
“I am involved in the land of a lion and a wolf, the land that gives rise to all things. Here we live in the bright part of the world.”
“Let us consider this as our victory in which we have as yet only used our arms, and not our plans.”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”
“For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.”
“In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.”
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”
“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.”
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
“Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
“True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.”
“We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.”
“With the right attitude, self-imposed limitations vanish.”
“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.”
“How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furnishing him with the necessary food? Rather let him first help himself and then others.”
“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
“I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.”
“I do not steal the victory.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Soldiers, I had lately liked 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.”
“To my mind, no action is in itself either evil or good. It is only in its relation to the performer that it comes to be either the one or the other.”
“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”
“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.”
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“A king does not kill messengers.”
“Whatever you learn, learn it for keeping.”
“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”
“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.”
“Every light is not the sun.”
“Without knowledge, skill cannot be focused. Without skill, strength cannot be brought to bear, and without strength, knowledge may not be applied.”
“When my casket is being carried to the grave, leave my hands hanging outside. For empty-handed I came into this world and empty-handed I shall go.”
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.”
Alexander the Great Quotes :
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
“I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.”
“There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well.”
“To the strongest!”
“In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.”
“Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.”
“Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free… if not for any other reason but to see if you will turn a friend or enemy.”
“My logisticians are a humorless lot… they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.”
“When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.”
“I want the world to know that I existed and that I stood for something.”
“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”
“I will not steal a victory.”
“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
“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?”