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.

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

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

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.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

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

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war