“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough."
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“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.”
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.”
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
“Glory crowns the deeds of those who expose themselves to toils and dangers.”
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"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."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)
"We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war"
— Alexander the Great (356-323BC)