Alexander the Great Quotes & Sayings

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”

“Bury 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.”

“To the strongest!”

“Remember: the conduct of each determines the fate of all.”

“Nothing is impossible to the one who will try.”

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

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

“Not every light is the sun.”

“My treasure lies in my friends.”

“How can a man groom his horse or polish his spear and helmet if he grows unaccustomed to tending his own person, his most treasured possession?”

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”

“For as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls.”

“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”

“I want the road to be strewn with my treasure, so everyone sees that material wealth earned on earth stays on earth.”

“O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!”

“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”

“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”

“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”

“Glory crowns the deeds of those who expose themselves to toil and danger.”

“Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your other virtues?”

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

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

“At Achilles' tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!”

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