A Quote by Alexander the Great

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

Alexander the Great

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Teacher Am Father Indebted Living Well

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Alexander the Great
Greek - Leader
356 BC - 323 BC

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

Michael Tolkin

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

Katrina Kaif

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

Samuel Alito

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Hildegard Knef

I know we live in a materialistic world. I am not living on Cloud Nine; I am not living in Disneyland. I understand all that.

Adnan Sami

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

Randy Pausch

By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.

Sheri L. Dew

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I'd, you know, I'd believed in God my whole life. And then started thinking about it. I was like, 'Am I living like - this stuff I'm reading - am living like we are called to live; to put Christ first, and to live for Christ? Maybe I'm not living like I'm supposed to.'

Rich Froning Jr.

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Nawal El Saadawi

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Melissa Leo

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

St. Jerome

But the best revenge for naysayers is living well. And living well is doing your job and taking care of your family.

Jalen Rose

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

B. R. Ambedkar

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.