Quotes About The Test

#1. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

#2. Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

Seneca The Younger

#3. In life, the test comes first, the lesson later.

E.J. Squires

#4. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Orison Swett Marden

#6. Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7. Qui-gon shook his head. 'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not testing you, Obi-wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human.

Dave Wolverton

#8. It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. She says, this is Holly, I say honey, you sound far away, she says I'm in
New York, I say what the hell are you doing in New York when it's Sunday and you got
the test tomorrow?
She says I'm in New York cause I've never been to New York.

Truman Capote

#10. I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

Martin Schulz

#11. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

David J. Schwartz

#12. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Thornton Wilder

#13. And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Lauren F. Winner

#14. The most recent edition of the test - called the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - was conducted in 2012, and it found that among the OECD's thirty-four members, the United States ranked twenty-seventh, twentieth, and seventeenth in math, science, and reading, respectively.

Fareed Zakaria

#15. The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.

Roger McGuinn

#17. I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.

Arnold Palmer

#18. 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

#19. So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

Gill Robb Wilson

#20. I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought ... this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started

Phil Kearns

#21. The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Oswald Chambers

#22. Win?" Call said, startled. It hadn't occurred to him that Master Rufus was expecting them to win the test. Not after a whole onth of sand. "We're not going to win." He was mostly concerned with whether they would survive.
"That's the spirit." Aaron hid a grin.

Cassandra Clare

#23. I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

Mayer Hawthorne

#24. God often presents us with the test of love at the point when we ourselves are struggling.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

P.G. Wodehouse

#26. The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.

Kenneth Eade

#27. The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.

James Collins

#28. The next move is always the test.

Seamus Heaney

#29. The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

Jonathan Sacks

#30. The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Daniel Starch

#31. I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail!

Yoko

#32. A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

Paulo Coelho

#33. A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

Gabrielle Dennis

#34. The test of moral ideas is moral results.

Morton Blackwell

#35. F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

Bill Maher

#36. Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Peter Ustinov

#37. Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

Miguel De Icaza

#38. Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

G.K. Chesterton

#39. While extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time ... is people.

Mark Salsbury

#40. So what's the test?"
"Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#41. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

John Keats

#42. We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Terry Brooks

#43. The test of how people will steward revival when it comes is revealed in how faithfully they cry out for it before it gets there.

Michael Brown

#44. Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

Michael Beckwith

#45. The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

#46. They that know their God shall not be disappointed. They will stand the test of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Vern Law

#48. If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Pauline Kael

#49. Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

B. J. Porter

#50. The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#51. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt

#52. We are all of us remarkably goodtempered while we have our own way; but the true meekness, which is a work of grace, will stand the fire of persecution, and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty, and wrong, even as the meekness of Christ did upon the cross of Calvary.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#53. I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

Charles M. Schulz

#54. Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William James

#55. If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

Andy Stanley

#56. We are not teaching to the test; we are living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#57. I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.

John C. Reilly

#58. I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

Wendy Davis

#59. The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

George William Curtis

#60. I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Clive Owen

#61. I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.

Christina Engela

#62. Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.

Peter Rodman

#63. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.

Pierce Brown

#64. Email is much like an ADD diagnosis. Guaranteed extra time on the test.

Julie Buxbaum

#65. As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

Felix Wantang

#66. The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#67. It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs.

Erasmus

#68. Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

John Maynard Keynes

#69. Without a doubt, American teenagers can perform at the top of the world on a sophisticated test of critical thinking. Students at traditional public high schools that took the test in Fairfax, Virginia, also trounced teenagers around the world.

Amanda Ripley

#70. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Pearl S. Buck

#71. The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

Willa Cather

#72. What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

Alison Gopnik

#73. In school we learn things then take the test, In everyday life we take the test then we learn things. - Admon Israel

Anonymous

#74. Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

George Takei

#75. 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

#76. Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

Denis Leary

#77. Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the proverbial flower that shatters the stone, can Christ overcome the barriers and deep darkness of mortal moments?

Rob Guinan

#78. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive v the crown of life,

Anonymous

#79. Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes - that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

Agatha Christie

#80. She said she hadn't thought of that. Not finishing the test might be part of the test.

Jesse Ball

#81. The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.

Robert Kennedy

#82. Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

Gary Player

#83. The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Bryant H. McGill

#84. Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Mahatma Gandhi

#85. In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#86. If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser

#87. Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

Michelle Rempel

#88. Put God to the test when troubles come. He won't let you down. In the midst of a painful illness, Paul begged God to intervene and take it away. But God replied, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9). It was sufficient for Paul, and it will be for you.

Billy Graham

#89. SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

Mark Batterson

#90. He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

Franz Kafka

#91. The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#92. Failure is the test of greatness.

Herman Melville

#93. All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

William Shakespeare

#94. When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

Michelle Gomez

#95. This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.

Amanda Ripley

#96. Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

Theodore Roosevelt

#97. The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Daniel Kahneman

#98. If you are obedient to God and do that what He has already created and built in the spiritual realm, then God's creative power will make your job easy, and only then will the things you build be long lasting, able to stand the test of time.

Sunday Adelaja

#99. It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve.

Samuel Selvon

#100. This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity.
It's a love letter, and it has my name on it.
It has your name on it.

Angie Smith