We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.
— Tommy Douglas
Practical Test Of Character quotations
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity.
Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.
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.
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.
.. You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
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.
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word.
The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
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!
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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.
I am thorough believer in the American test of character.
He will not build high who does not build for himself.
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives.
It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.
The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
The tests of life are to make, not break us.
Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
True character stands the test of emergencies.
Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual.
Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
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.
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies.
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.