Quotes About Test

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 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.

Experience is a hard teacher, gives test first, the example last.

Experience is a cruel teacher...it gives you test before presenting the lesson.

God has a purpose in our heartaches, the savior always knows what's best; We learn so many precious lessons in each sorrow,trial,and test.

Sometimes life gives you the test before you've had time to learn the lesson

After all," I said to myself, "possibly the pleasure that its author has found in writing it is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; it may be only an accessory, one that is often to be found superadded to that value, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning.

Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Everyday you either pass or fail the test of life. Everyday is an opportunity to grow. Everyday is a chance to become a better person.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

The best advice I have for all my teachers during a test is to pass the test out as fast as possible before I forget everything.

Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of "the Bu*l*hit Police." Our job is to look at the ideas and plans interested parties put forward to solve our collective problems and see whether or not they pass the sniff test. Austerity as a route to growth and as the correct response to the aftermath of a financial crisis does not pass the sniff test.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.