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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -- Chinua Achebe
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises. -- David Wilkerson
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. -- Richard Branson
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. -- Benjamin Franklin
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. -- Maria Montessori
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -- Vern Law
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. -- Ansel Adams
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. -- Walter Annenberg
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. -- Agnes Macphail
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. -- Michelle Obama
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -- Tom Bodett
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. -- George S. Patton
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best. -- Giorgio Armani
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. -- C. S. Lewis
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. -- Paulo Coelho
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity. -- Jim Rohn
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God. -- Oswald Chambers
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. -- John Bingham
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape. -- Rachel Cusk
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him! -- Yasmin Mogahed
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. -- Paulo Coelho
Tests of love always end badly. -- Melanie Thernstrom
Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road. -- Wendy Kopp
I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests. -- Adam Gilchrist
When I was a kid, my first dream was to play Test matches, and the second one was to play 100 Test matches because there are very few people who have played 100 Tests for India. -- Virender Sehwag
I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn't be allowed to sell contaminated meat. -- Eric Schlosser
Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests. -- Suresh Raina
Chemotherapy tests your sanity. -- Melissa Etheridge
God tests His people through hardship. -- John Piper
Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity. -- Gautam Adani
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. -- Bill Gates
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -- Arnold H. Glasow
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies. -- T. D. Jakes
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. -- Ellen G. White
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. -- Will Smith
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. -- William Julius Wilson
I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers. -- Nikola Tesla
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. -- Stephen Covey
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. -- Robert Sternberg
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. -- M. H. Abrams
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child. -- Channing Tatum
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. -- A. R. Rahman
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?' -- Chuck Schumer
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. -- Ken Robinson
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. -- Carly Fiorina
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. -- Sam Ervin
The exception tests the rule. -- Richard P. Feynman
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends -- Aesop
Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle. -- Stephen D. Krashen
We meet all life's greatest tests alone. -- Agnes Macphail
Adversity tests what the soul can endure. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity tests the limit of our strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I still have nightmares about taking tests. -- Bruce Jenner
Adversity tests the limit of your strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I still have nightmares about taking tests. -- Bruce Jenner
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. -- Seneca the Younger
God tests, but he does not tempt. -- Criss Jami
Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate. -- George Carlin
A good threat is worth a thousand tests. -- Boris Beizer
Women put guys through tests all the time. -- J. B. Smoove
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music. -- Conrad Hall
Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries. -- Robin S
Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities. -- Mason Cooley
Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. -- Richard Bach
Life tests us to see our level of endurance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the real world, the tests are all open book. -- Jeff Jarvis
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty. -- Charles A. Beard
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later. -- Naomi Judd
Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. -- C. S. Lewis
I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests -- Matthew Hayden
The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. -- Muhammad Ali
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. -- Karl Popper
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. -- Ashanti
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests. -- Lance Armstrong
I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed -- Martin Fowler
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. -- Jeanette Winterson
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests. -- James Russell Lowell
I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. -- Jeanette Winterson
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. -- Suzanne Farrell
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk? -- Richard Bach
The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office. -- Jeb Bush
I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds -- Amy Tan
You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability. -- Bill Paxton
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? -- Noam Chomsky
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown. -- Ambrose
Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it, -- Ingrid Newkirk
I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice. -- Kurt Rambis
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests. -- Allen Frances
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. -- Fischer Black
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. -- Ken Robinson
Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. -- Kathryn Hulme
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests. -- Myles Munroe
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. -- Alan Watts
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. -- Arthur Koestler
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We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. -- Alice Cooper
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test. -- Rick Warren
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. -- Andy Goldsworthy
One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. -- Mark Batterson
It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure. -- Jason Bay
It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life. -- Willie Stargell
Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything. -- Rafe Esquith
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. -- Charles Duhigg
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. -- Jay Leno
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen. -- Derek Sivers
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment -- John Sculley

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