Top 86 Quotes About Test Of Character

#1. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Eastman

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#2. What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#3. Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

John Lubbock

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#4. Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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#5. Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Jack Gantos

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#6. We never ask for the bad that happens to us, but it happens. The true test of character is how we go on, what we take from it.

Michelle M. Pillow

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#7. I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Benjamin Harrison

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#8. The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Walter Annenberg

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#9. Power is a test - the test - of character.

Evalyn Walsh McLean

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#10. The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

James Arthur Ray

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#11. Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#12. The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

George Orwell

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#13. Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

David Ignatius

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#14. Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

J.C. Ryle

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#15. The truest test of character is how we behave towards people who can do nothing for us.

James Runcie

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#16. Fame is also a test of character at times ... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!

Meg Ryan

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#17. Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide ... so remember what you learn and more importantly-apply it.

Sarah Funkhouser

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#18. There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

Andy Stanley

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#19. There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Tess Gerritsen

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#20. loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#21. Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

ElRay L. Christiansen

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#22. The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Sydney J. Harris

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#23. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

John Holt

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#24. Sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character ...
-annabelle granger

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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#25. The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#26. Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

Alfred Armand Montapert

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#27. I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

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#28. The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

Orrin Woodward

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#29. The real test of character is whether you will do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Michael Josephson

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#30. There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Steven Spielberg

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#31. Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

Delbert L. Stapley

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#32. Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Abraham Maslow

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#33. The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.

William Moyers

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#34. The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

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#35. It's easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#36. The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Oswald Chambers

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#37. A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Jason Statham

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#38. Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

Russell Mark

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#39. What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Plato

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#40. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Chase Smith

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#41. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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#42. If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all.

Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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#43. We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Michelle Moran

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#44. Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Paul Brunton

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#45. Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.

K.L. Toth

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#46. The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#47. They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her.

Chetan Bhagat

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#48. There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Henry Taylor

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#49. I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.

Jill Davis

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#50. No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#51. There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Plutarch

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#52. The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

Bob Jones, Sr.

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#53. If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.

Spencer W. Kimball

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#54. If you give up, you champion the cause of the devil.If you stand the test, you align yourself with the character and will of God.Children of God never give up on a good cause!

Phanuel Muverengwi

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#55. 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

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#56. Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

Benjamin Carson

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#57. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Aron Ralston

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#58. Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

Mark Twain

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#59. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#60. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#61. Of course you cannot know a man completely,
his character, his principles, sense of judgment,
not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people,
making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Sophocles

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#62. If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

Watchman Nee

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#63. We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

Robert E. Wells

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#64. We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Vince Lombardi

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#65. There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

Michael Ondaatje

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#66. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#67. The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

Winston Churchill

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#68. Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

James E. Faust

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#69. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Helen Keller

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#70. My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.

Suresh Raina

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#71. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

Bob Jones, Sr.

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#72. The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

Elizabeth Moon

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#73. No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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#74. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

Jimmy Carter

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#75. The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

Richard M. Nixon

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#76. The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

John Wooden

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#77. Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Susan Sontag

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#78. The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

John K. Fairbank

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#79. The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

LeCrae

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#80. We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.

Tommy Douglas

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#81. No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#82. For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Cressida Cowell

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#83. The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

Oswald Chambers

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#84. The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

Lee Corso

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#85. The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#86. Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

Joel Osteen

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