Alexander the Great quotes

" There is nothing impossible to him who will try. " # Impossibility

" In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. " # Faith # Charity # Hope

" Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep. " # Leaders and Leadership

" Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. " # Unity # Fate # Memory

" 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! " # Crisis

" 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. " # Crisis

" If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. " # self-esteem

" Holy shadows of the dead, I’m 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. " # Happiness

" How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. " # Fame # Danger # Winners and Winning

" A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. " # Grave # Freedom # Power