In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

- Cyrus The Great

Do not suppose, my dearest sons, that when I have left you I shall be nowhere and no one. Even when I was with you, you did not see my soul, but knew…

- Cyrus The Great

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

- Cyrus The Great

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

- Cyrus The Great

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assu…

- Cyrus The Great

May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The…

- Cyrus The Great

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge …

- Cyrus The Great

Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. …

- Cyrus The Great

I am Cyrus, king of the world.

- Cyrus The Great