Tested Quotes

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Democracy, World

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

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• None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Knows, Capable

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• You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Achievement, Feelings

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.93, Penguin

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

  John Bevere

  Affliction, Silver, Refined

  John Bevere (2014). “The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.9, Charisma Media

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• The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tests, Fairness, Truthful

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• The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Fire, Virtue

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.496, Courier Corporation

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• Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

  Po Bronson

  Bliss, Awe Inspiring, Has Beens

  Po Bronson (2005). “Why Do I Love These People?: The Families We Come from and the Families We Form”

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• Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sea, Ships, Christianity

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• Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

  Junot Diaz

  Honesty, Love Is, Challenges

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• The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful.

  Peyton Manning

  Grateful, Games, Play

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Whenever you become empowered,
  you will be tested.

  Caroline Myss

  Empowered

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

  Fannie Flagg

  Heart, Persons, Knows

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.128, Random House

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• I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

  Cornelia Funke

  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

  Michael O'Brien

  Fire, Dwelling Place, Darkness

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• He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

  Emily Giffin

  Want, Towels, Failing

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  If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

  Jon Stewart

  Motivational, Sticks, Hobbies

  "The Daily Show", January 22, 2009.

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• Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Honesty, Understanding

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.452, Running Press

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• The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

  Paul Johnson

  Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance

  Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Skills, May

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• There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Adversity, Simple, Financial Hardship

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• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  Radhanath Swami

  Kings, War, Rights

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