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Quotes About Test

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
~ Richard Bach
One of my favorite posters says, "Life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been a real life you would have been instructed where to go and what to do." Whenever I think of this humorous bit of wisdom, it reminds me to not take my life so seriously.
~ Richard Carlson
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
~ Richard Dawkins
Travel, we agreed, was a litmus test: if we can make the best of the chaos and serendipity that we'd inevitably meet in transit, then we'd surely be able to sail through the rest of life together just fine. So far, we'd done pretty well.
~ Julia Child
Travel, we agreed, was a litmus test: if we could make the best of the chaos and serendipity that we'd inevitably meet in transit, then we'd surely be able to sail through the rest of life together just fine. So far, we'd done pretty well.
~ Julia Child
What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
~ Samuel Butler
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
~ Seneca the Younger
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
~ William Hazlitt
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Until you have hunted men, you haven't hunted yet.
~ Jesse Ventura
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.
~ Russell Means
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
~ Vaclav Havel
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
~ Aldo Leopold
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
~ Brigham Young
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
~ Charles Lever
I would not be happy. If North Korea does a nuclear test, I will not be happy. And I can tell you also, I don't believe that the president of China, who is a very respected man, will be happy either.
~ Donald Trump
The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.
~ Edgar Guest
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
~ Edmund Waller
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
~ Frank Herbert
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.
~ Marcus Eremita
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
~ Paul Valery
The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.
~ Peter P. Mahoney