Alexander The Great on Deep Work Quotes

"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."

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

"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."

"I will not rest until I have reached the very ends of the earth."

"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."

"To my mind, the man who is truly a man should find no other end to his labors than the labors themselves."

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

"Soldiers, I had rather be the first in a village than the second in Rome."

"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."

"Every light is not the sun."

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

"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."

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

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

"It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die, leaving behind an everlasting renown."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"With the right attitude, self-imposed limitations vanish."

"May God keep you from it; for the man who is born to be a king should be the first to know the laws of his own kingdom."

"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied."

"I send you a kaphis 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."

"I do not steal victory."

"Consider the world as your country, with laws which are common to all and where the best will govern."

"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."

"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."

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

"His father is Philip, but his mother is the world."

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

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

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