The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

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

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
Michael Phelps

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

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

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

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug