Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
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The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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Polygraph tests are 20thcentury witchcraft.
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One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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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.
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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.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is test. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
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The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
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American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the tests, do Americans really want us to say no to him because he's got tattoos? I don't think so.
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The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
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Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.
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