Character Tested Quotes

#1. I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

Bruce Bennett

#2. Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Lord Acton

#3. The eye's perception of texture is pale compared to the lips', and I didn't know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.

Laini Taylor

#4. The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is;
the more tested a man the more refined he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to avoid those kinds of situations.

Caprice Crane

#6. It is not the descent toward the shadow nor the rise toward the light that makes us superior. It is the endless struggle between the two that greatness of character lies. We are tested, and we do not break.

Sanguinius

#7. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.

Norman Lock

#8. I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

J Mascis

#9. For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Stendhal

#10. There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

Warren Beatty

#11. No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#12. I want nothing but death.

Jane Austen

#13. If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

Tiffany Madison

#14. True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

Ellen G. White

#15. Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

Rick Warren

#16. A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

Amish Tripathi