1. Without knowledge, skill cannot be focused. Without skill, strength cannot be brought to bear; and without strength, knowledge may not be applied.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

5. When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

- Alexander the Great

6. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue.

- Alexander the Great

7. There is something noble in hearing myself ill-spoken of when I am doing well.

- Alexander the Great

8. In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

10. 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 is out of the reach of industry and valor.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

13. 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.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

15. I do not steal victory.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

17. Glory crowns the deeds of those who expose themselves to toils and dangers.

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great

20. 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.

- Alexander the Great

21. 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.

- Alexander the Great

22. Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

- Alexander the Great

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

- Alexander the Great