Tested Quotes - Page 17

• But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Strong, Secret, Survival

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, Believe, Mean

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• Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

  Peter Adamson

  Children, Reality, Rare Events

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• Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

  Alan Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

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• A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

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• Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.

  Sarah

  Love You, Needs, Proven

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• Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Skills, May

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• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  Radhanath Swami

  Kings, War, Rights

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• We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Peace, Powerful, Use

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• There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Adversity, Simple, Financial Hardship

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• To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Bad Day, Challenges

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• Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

  Tom Shales

  Mean, Excess, Television

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• An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

  Ryu Si-won

  Drama, Laughing, Age

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• There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

  Nelson Mandela

  Optimistic, Dark, Optimism

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

  George Lois

  Ideas, Mediocre

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• Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Fighting, People

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 195

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• Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Trusted

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• The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

  Adrian Peterson

  Pain, Two, Want

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• Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

  Jason Giambi

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Yankees' Giambi Tells Major League Baseball to Apologize for Drug Problems". www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2007.

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• They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

  David Ortiz

  Guy, Beans, Bigs

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• Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Adversity, People, Resilience

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• Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

  Hans Selye

  Gratitude, Attitude, Energy

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• Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Struggle, Fall, Love Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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