You must be the change you wish to see in the world

Well done is better than well said.

Do one thing every day that scares you

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. …

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer

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

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

I do not steal victory

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

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well

Every light is not the sun.

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you

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

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

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 belonging?

I do not pilfer victory

Truly my body and don’t build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died

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

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters

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

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

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

There is nothing more divine than to be free.

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

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 until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them

Remember 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.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try