Alexander the Great

"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."

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

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

"I want to take Rome with Caesar or perish with him."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."

"The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"I had rather live a short life than a long one lived miserably."

"Nothing is impossible to the man who will try."

"Now that I've come to terms with myself, I'm ready to conquer the world."

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

"A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Through every generation of the human race there has been constant war between those who imagine they can make the world work and those who know they can."

"He is the wisest man who does not fancy that he is so at all."

"The ends of the earth are no further now than formerly."

"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."

"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

"Do you see how these walls of Babylon seem to touch the sky? Yet they will crumble to dust."

"Fortune favors the bold."

"I will go anywhere as long as there is a chance of glory."

"Were it not better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep?"

"There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

"May we not learn from the past and chart our own futures?"

"The goal of life is self improvement, not self indulgence."

"In Egypt, I was called the son of the sun god Ra. It is flattering."

"Hephaestion is dead."

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

"I owe everything to my father Philip."