Test Of Character Quotes

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  Walter Annenberg

  Character, Challenges, Tests

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• 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, Character, Real Friends

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• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  Jack Gantos

  Character, Decision, Tests

  Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.8, Macmillan

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

  Mike Dooley

  Wise, Strong, Character

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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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Happiness, Courage, Integrity

  NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

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• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Character, Veins

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.16, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

  George Orwell

  Real, Character, Doing You

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• The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

  James Arthur Ray

  Character, Persistence, Tunnels

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• sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving Up, Real, Character

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• Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!

  Meg Ryan

  Pain, Character, Tampons

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  There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

  Andy Stanley

  Character, Tests, Cramming

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

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• Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Character, Tests, Invisible

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• The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Character, Secret, Tests

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• The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

  Charles A. Beard

  Character, Two, Tests

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• Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Character, Tests

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.114, Editora Dracaena

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• Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  John Lubbock

  Character, Endurance, Heroism

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• The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Fashion, Memories, Character

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.162, Macmillan

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• What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Development, Tests

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.46

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• I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Character, Doe, Tests

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• Power is a test - the test - of character.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Character, Power, Tests

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

  William Mathews

  Money, Character, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.

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• Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Real, Character, Missionary

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• our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Money, Character, Roots

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