Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Testing

Testing

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.--John Milton (Aeropagitica)
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.--Christopher Morley (Inward Ho!)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.--Helen Keller
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.--Mildred White Struven
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, not man perfected without trials.--Confucius
Different people must contend with different trials, but adversities in some shape or other come to everyone.--R. C. McCarthy
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.--Agnes Macphail
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.--Thomas a Kempis (The Imitation of Christ)
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.--Lydia M. Child (Letters from New York v. 1)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.--Seneca
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials--Cicero
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.--George Macdonald
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.--Billy Graham
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life--the children; those who are in the twilight of life--the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy and the handicapped.--Hubert Humphrey (speech, 1977)
Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.--Jerome P. Fleishman
Temptation almost always assails us at the point where we thought no defense necessary.--Elizabeth Elton Smith (Three Eras of Woman's Life)
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.--F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 Heschel
The test of any man lies in action.--Pindar (Odes)
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.--Gail Sheehy
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.--Thomas Secker
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Compensation" Essays: First Series)
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.--William Arthur Ward
Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.--Hillary Rodham Clinton