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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

Men, Power, Character

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Power, Society

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Joel Osteen

Good, God, Attitude

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enough, Progress, Whether

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Find, Here, Alive

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Person, Democracy

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Children

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Life, Time, Husband

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

Age, Religion, Reason

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

Wrong, Found, Fail

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Mind, Two

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage, Heart, Greatest

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty, Moral, Perception

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Work, Human

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Woman, Quarrel, Behave

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

Fitness, Children, Important

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson

Integrity, Individual, Perhaps

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Top

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

Love, Friendship, Heart

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Good, Bad, Patient

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

Few, Popularity, Proper

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

Courage, Children, Lives

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin

Great, Humility, Truly

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.
Charles Alexander Eastman

Friendship, Family, Character

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society, Children, Moral

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James

May, Find, Reason

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, True, Care

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Mitt Romney

Best, Children, Cannot

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