Alexander The Great on Business Quotes

"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer."

"True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love."

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

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

"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."

"Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"

"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."

"The end of work is to have done it."

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

"Great is the king who knows how to conquer, but greater is he who knows how to use his victory."

"Soldiers, I had rather be the first in this little Iberian village than second in Rome."

"How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends."

"I do not steal victory."

"I am not afraid of the dangers of the journey, but of the length of the road."

"My father will anticipate everything, and leave for me and you no opportunity of performing any great and illustrious action."

"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame."

"Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable."

"There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one."

"I send you a kaphos of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."

"Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms."

"God is the common father of all men, but He adopts as His own the best of them."

"Every moment is a step towards destiny."

"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."

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

"May God keep you from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans."

"How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured possession?"

"You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor."

"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."

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

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

"I will not let the sun go down on my anger, but I will let it go down on my work."

"Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another."