Quotes About Trial

But it was not to remain thus. Still once more Abraham was to be tried. He had fought with that cunning power which invents everything, with that alert enemy which never slumbers, with that old man who outlives all things–he had fought with Time and preserved his faith. Now all the terror of the strife was concentrated in one instant.

To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

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.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Success is 99 percent failure.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?

Le comte jeta autour de lui un regard dont l'expression désespérée eût touché des tigres, mais il ne pouvait désarmer des juges ; puis il leva les yeux vers la voûte, et les détourna aussitôt, comme s'il eût craint que cette voûte, en s'ouvrant, ne fît resplendir ce second tribunal qui se nomme le ciel, cet autre juge qui s'appelle Dieu.

It is the civil jury that really saved the liberties of England.

Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.