Alexander The Great on Creativity Quotes

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

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

"It does not matter how the knot is untied, so long as it is loosed."

"The more you have, the more you are occupied; the less you give, the less you become."

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

"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."

"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."

"God is the common father of all men, but he makes the best ones peculiarly his own."

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp."

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

"Greatness is a result of the imagination and the will."

"His father is a king, his mother a queen, and he himself is a king."

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

"Conduct yourself so as to become worthy of the empire."

"Consider the world as your country, with an army for your government and the good for your laws."

"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 him who will try."

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

"Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved."

"I do not pilfer victory."

"I am not looking for a place to hide, but a place to win."

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

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

"My logisticians are a humorless lot... for they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."

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

"Every light is not the sun."

"I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor often depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution."

"Are you not aware that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"

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

"I am the son of Jupiter Ammon, and I shall act accordingly."

"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 virtue and industry."

"To my mind, there is no limit to the labors of a high-spirited man."

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