Top 1200 Test Of Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

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.

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.

Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

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.

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

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.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

The more you play Test cricket, you get to mature as Test player.

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.

I'm looking for someone who can be put to the test... and by test, I mean an obstacle course that represents life and its challenges!

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.

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

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

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

The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.

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

The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

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.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.

Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.

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.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

I'm proud of my driver test. So many people were waiting for me to test and fail, so they could say that women would never be able to race in F1. I always view my time in F1 as before and after the test. Beforehand, I could sense everybody asking, 'What's she doing in the F1 paddock? Is she good enough?' After my test, that attitude changed.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart may leap with a new inspiration on some mountain-top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain. The workshop of character is every-day life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is won or lost.

I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.

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.

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

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.

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

The only way to pass a test is to take the test

I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self.

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.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

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.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.