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Alexander The Great didn't just study Excellence—they mastered it. This archive captures the principles and frameworks they developed through direct experience. Each quote includes source context, allowing you to trace their thinking from observation to insight. Use this collection when you're serious about understanding Excellence at a deeper level, not just consuming motivational content.
"Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
"Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel fate."
"Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies."
"I will not hide that I have a great desire for fame."
"Excellence is a habit, but for the king, it must be his nature."
"Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."
"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."
"May God keep you from the warrior who seeks only glory without virtue."
"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."
"My father will anticipate everything, and leave for me and you no opportunity of performing any great and illustrious action."
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough."
"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."
"The reward of toil is to have done it."
"I am not looking for a place to rest, but a place to conquer my own weaknesses."
"There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one."
"True love for one's own country is found in the heart of the soldier."
"Greatness is found in the struggle, not the crowning."
"Let us remember that we are the sons of gods and the masters of men."
"I do not steal victory."
"Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure, but the love gained by kindness is durable."
"I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms."
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
"Our enemies have lived soft lives; we have been trained in the hard school of danger."
"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
"I send you a kaphiz of mustard seed to acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."
"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused."
"The end of labor is to achieve."
"There is nothing left for us to conquer but our own limits."
"To reach the end of the world is the only goal worthy of a man."
"Are you not aware that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"
"I would rather compete with kings than with commoners."
"For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)"
"Victory is not the end, but the beginning of a higher standard."
"To the most worthy belongs the crown of excellence."
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