95 Exam Quotes

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Ability is not always gauged by examination. - Indira Gandhi

Ability is not always gauged by examination. — Indira Gandhi

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. — Franz Kafka

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

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere

Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi

All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice. — Kurt Rambis

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. — Max Planck

Everything is practice. - Pele

Everything is practice. — Pele

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it. — Mack Brown

A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!" — Henny Youngman

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

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

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk! — Chris Oyakhilome

Short Exam Quotes

  • We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Sayings
  • There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
  • We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. — John C. Maxwell
  • Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future — Thomas A. Edison
  • I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
  • If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
  • Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. — Alexander Pope
  • My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. — Charles Dickens
  • The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret — Leo Buscaglia
  • Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. — Robert Kiyosaki

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Motivational Exam Quotes

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. — Bill Gates

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. — Ed Macauley

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. — Nora Roberts

Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do. — Lois Aileen Bey

Final Exams Quotes

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. — Bobby Fischer

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. — Albert Einstein

Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead. — Christopher Titus

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma. — Sarah Sutton

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. — Joel Garreau

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me. — Kenny Cunningham

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. — George Carlin

So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love. — Marci Shimoff

Examination Quotes

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. - Walt Whitman

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. — Walt Whitman

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle. — Gary Yourofsky

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks

I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man. — Alexander Hamilton

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do. — Sally Mann

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. — Woodrow Wilson

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arabic Proverbs

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. — Arabic Proverbs

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight

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More Exam Quotes

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. — Woody Hayes

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end. — Carles Puyol

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam. — Rick Riordan

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. — Karl von Frisch

I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part. — Garry Shandling

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. — Charlie Hunnam

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will. — Maria Montessori

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. — Paul Nurse

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. — Cam Newton

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — Woody Allen

A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer. — Gilbert Gottfried

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies. — Bill Gates

When Students cheat on exams it's because our School System values grades more than Students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide. — Matthieu Ricard

So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams. — J. K. Rowling

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. — Hedy Lamarr

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors. — Sharon Olds

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY. — Shiv Khera

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. — Bill Gates

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. — Jonathan Kozol

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories. — Khushwant Singh

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out. — Matt Groening

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. — Confucius

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams. — Gautam Adani

During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ. — TobyMac

The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does! — J. K. Rowling

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.' — Sayings

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