Alexander the Great

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"Little things affect little minds."

"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to recognize how unnecessary many things are."

"To the best of my power, I will do justice."

"If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me."

"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants and contented mind."

"Did you come to fight or to surrender?"

"Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies."

"I learned from my father to be a king; from my mother to be ambitious."

"By the favor of Providence, by the bravery of the soldiers, and by wise strategy, I have conquered."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"I would not fear the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I would fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times."

"Don't be afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, but be afraid of a flock of sheep led by a lion."

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world."

"My enemies will be wiped out as I have wiped out others before them."

"Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep the ashes in a golden urn and hang it in the temple of Athena."

"Remember that the greatest kings have all come to dust, and so shall I."

"The Macedonian phalanx was all but invincible."

"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"On that day, having viewed the corpse of Darius, I shed tears."

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

"When the time for action has come, stop thinking and go in."

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

"I would rather be remembered as one who did, than one who talked about doing."

"After death, there is nothing."

"I am not afraid of the enemy's swords, I am afraid of my own men's weakness."

"Nothing is in the eye of the beholder, everything is determined by the mind."