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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

Man Character Men Adversity Power

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

Myself I Am Competition Looking

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

Beauty Time Look Architecture

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Good Good Teacher Teacher I Am

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.

Attitude Good God Moments

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

Life Patience Faith End

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.

Love Ignorance Power Alcohol

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Friendship Time People You

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Future You Performance Standardized

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

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Good Patience Bad Manners Patient

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Teacher Experience She Hard

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Love God True Love Romantic

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.

Life Friend Time Husband

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

Good Opportunity Adversity Game

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

History Progress Enough More

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

Respect Gentleman Service Possible

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

Work Good Success Yourself

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Alone March Wish Way

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

Maria Montessori

Happiness Child Procedure Educational

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

Friendship Love Heart Man

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

Communism Ideas Bed Atomic Bomb

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.

Black And White Black School Men

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Heart Courage Losing Earth Defeat

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Strength Mind You Togetherness

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

Sports Me Cricket Challenge

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

Friendship Love Work Good

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