A Quote by Jack Gantos

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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Jack Gantos
American - Author
Born: July 2, 1951

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

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True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.

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Aron Ralston

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Elyse Fitzpatrick

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

Richard G. Scott

I think a person's true worth is measured during times of failure.

Zeenat Aman

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

Viola Davis

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

Mother Teresa

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Cleanth Brooks

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Angad Bedi

Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.

Ivanka Trump

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

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

Christopher Hitchens

The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.

Rick Warren

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.