Quotes About Being Tested

#1. Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

Paul Theroux

#2. Progress cannot be attained without being tested. When you are tempted you are very close to your promotion.Temptation proceeds elevation. You are tempted to be lifted !

Osunsakin Adewale

#3. When people know they are being tested, they act like they are being tested.

Geoffrey Neill

#4. Credulity that was being tested. A fat man with red

Lev Grossman

#5. Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God

Muhammad Ali

#6. The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Alice James

#7. Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.

Carl Lewis

#8. It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.

Craig Ferguson

#9. Whenever I feel as if my faith is being tested, give me the grace to see you moving in my life to strengthen my relationship with you.

Amy E. Mason

#10. With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that ... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

Rafael Palmeiro

#11. No one walks through life unscathed, and it's how we react to being tested that becomes our legacy.

Emigh Cannaday

#12. No one can run away from being tested so don't even bother trying.

Norhafsah Hamid

#13. At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

Auliq Ice

#14. They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

James Dashner

#15. I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Ashton Eaton

#16. Marsh recounts an anecdote about a psychopath who was being tested with a series of pictures and who failed over and over again to recognize fearful expressions, until finally she figured it out: "That's the look people get right before I stab them.

Paul Bloom

#17. Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Clinton

#18. One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#19. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold - though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.

Anonymous

#20. I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

Conan O'Brien

#21. All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Muhammad Ali

#22. A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Malcolm Forbes

#23. I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

Marilyn French

#24. God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot.
It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought.

Tracy Chevalier

#25. The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

David Deutsch

#26. If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart

#27. The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

George W. Bush

#28. The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

Bob Greene

#29. the gospel of repentance is a constant reminder that the most righteous are still being tested and may yet fall, and that the most wicked are not yet beyond redemption and may still be saved."14

Marvin R. VanDam

#30. We're all being tested...That's what life is.

Brad Meltzer

#31. You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!

Iyanla Vanzant

#32. Greece was merely the laboratory where these failed policies were being tested and developed before their implementation everywhere across Europe.

Yanis Varoufakis

#33. Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

Arthur Golden

#34. The instructor is always silent when the test is given ... When God is silent in your life ... You are being tested.

Rick Warren

#35. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

John Hurt

#36. If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

Warren Farrell

#37. I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS. It's an important thing.

Joe Biden

#38. I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Childish

#39. People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

Karl Pilkington

#40. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

Paulo Coelho

#41. Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.

Frank Herbert

#42. Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Martin Seligman

#43. I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

Olivia Thirlby

#44. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli

#45. We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

Chuck Palahniuk

#46. I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Spencer Boldman

#47. Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

Maximus The Confessor

#48. But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.

Barry Lyga

#49. What is wrong? Is this related to the notice I received from Queen Windermere that a war was being beta-tested, and might be cleared for release? I do not have time to allow my coders to be slaughtered. It seems very inefficient.

Seanan McGuire

#50. I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break.

Natalie Dormer

#51. Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#52. As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.

Eminem

#53. I get tested for HIV twice a year ... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible.

Scarlett Johansson

#54. There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

El-P

#55. Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority.

Tom Rob Smith

#56. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Richard Branson

#57. We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Erich Hoeber

#58. You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

Napoleon Hill

#59. Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#60. Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

Alfred North Whitehead