Alexander the Great

"Fortune assists the bold."

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

"My ancestors and I have always conquered our enemies."

"I would rather live a short life with honor and glory than a long life lived in obscurity."

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

"On the night of the conception of Alexander, three significant events happened."

"The people of Asia obey us now, not from submission to Macedon, but because they trust in your leadership."

"Our enemies are Persians, men who live in luxury and ease. We live in hardship and danger. This makes us stronger."

"Place before us the accomplishment of great deeds rather than long life."

"When the time comes to die, even the Emperor with all his possessions must go empty-handed."

"It is well to know the nature of all things, but dangerous to believe yourself master of all knowledge."

"I learned of men to think nobly of their souls, and to struggle against all that would demean them."

"Those people who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Remember that the only immeasurable things are the heavens and human virtue."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"A man's own worst enemy cannot wish him more misfortune than he is apt to bring upon himself."

"Through every generation of the human race there has been constant war, and occasionally an individual rises above the fear barriers to lead peace."

"I have not the leisure to occupy myself with trifles."

"The beauty of it lies not in physical form but in the vigor of the mind and spirit."

"Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak."

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs; a man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong."

"The world learns only from those who dare to lead it in new directions."

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

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, you shall become."

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."

"If I seem to have learned where I have learned, I have only remembered what I was taught."

"Cowards die many times before their death; the brave taste of death but once."

"What man is not carried away by hope and not burdened by memories."