Our list of Alexander The Great Quotes
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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The Alexander The Great's quote says that nothing is impossible for those who try.
The fear that something is impossible to achieve is a fear that many of us have. Of course, we must try not to have this fear because it is only a pretense.
The attitude we must adopt in facing something, even if it is enormous, is an attitude that is always optimistic, realistic, and rational.
Even if we fail at first, we can still be grateful that we have gained experience from the situation, and later we will handle the difficulty in a better way.
Everyone we consider to be better, from scientists to writers, has failed at least once, but because of their non-surrendering attitude, they were able to deal with their situations.
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.
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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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?
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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I do not pilfer victory.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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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.
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
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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.
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For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
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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.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
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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?
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Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
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His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.
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Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
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If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.
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So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
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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.
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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There is nothing immpossible to him who will try.
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