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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
Great
Relationship
Man
First
Understanding
Doubt
Humility
Hesitation
Say
Great Man
He
Merely
Powers
Opinion
Test
His
Truly
Mean
Speaking
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
You
Finished
Earth
Alive
Find
Mission
Test
Whether
Your
Here
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson
Self-Respect
Respect
Integrity
Say
Would
Individual
Perhaps
Surest
Test
His
Refusal
Anything
Damage
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 Joshua Heschel
Love
Culture
People
Old
Care
Affection
Incurable
Tyrants
Mines
Easy
Fond
Point
True
Toward
Make
How
Test
Dictators
Behaves
Gold
Being
Children
To Love
Helpless
Even
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
Adversity
Wife
Duty
Difficulty
Relative
Misfortune
Discharge
Test
His
Friend
While
Servant
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan
Leadership
Humanity
Put
Test
Greatness
Elicit
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori
Happiness
Correctness
Test
Educational
Child
Procedure
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck
People
Fear
Old
Young
Society
Cares
Our
Way
Members
Possible
Must
Civilization
Make
Test
Them
Old People
Helpless
Deserted
Right
It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Peter Thiel
Success
Work
Good
You
Yourself
Key
Achieve
Job
Feeling
Ambition
Think
Key Thing
Develop
Talents
Well
Well Done
Greater
Test
Get
Done
Success Is
Your
Fully
Thing
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good
Problem
Every
Only
Major
Major Problem
Yardstick
Test
America
Which
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman
Today
You
Memory
Try
Year
Worrying
About
Test
Were
Want
Your
Recall
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe
Few
Think
Considered
Case
Cases
Proper
Mere
Merit
Test
Which
Should
Popularity
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alone
Will
Wish
Others
Way
Ourselves
Must
Join
Test
Then
Us
Such A Way
March
Set
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
Charles Stanley
God
Good
Matter
Every
Trial
Significant
See
Over
How
Test
Been
Heartache
Turn
Turned
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
Chuck Schumer
Life
Work
Home
Morning
You
Wait
Wake Up
Important
Monday
Other
Say
More
Feel
Ready
Test
Go
Go Home
Tests
Friday
Wake
Up
Than
Stomach
Pit
Any
Afternoon
Your
Monday Morning
Two
The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.
Lee Kuan Yew
People
Political
Value
Living
Society
System
Majority
Test
Ultimate
Conditions
Improve
Political System
Establish
Whether
Which
Standard
Helps
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Nikos Kazantzakis
God
Soul
Courage
Joy
Enemy
Devil
Others
Everything
Destroy
Destroyed
See
All-Powerful
Rush
Some
Seem
Wrong
Invisible
Call
Him
Test
Goes
Endurance
Us
Your
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Pat Riley
Strength
You
Mind
State
Approach
Total
Spirit
Only
Concentration
Test
Any
Togetherness
Profound
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
Charles Krauthammer
Lion
You
Yourself
Mind
Liberal
Test
Den
Going
Where
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Robert M. Hutchins
You
Do-It-Yourself
Fault
Think
Paranoia
Know
Got
Test
Anything
Your
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
Work
Lie
Will
Excellence
He
Does
Test
Goes
Artist
Which
Produces
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Perception
Beauty
Moral
Test
You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.
Armaan Malik
You
Game
Long
Stay
See
Come
Come And Go
How
Real
Test
Go
Manage
May
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
Charles Stanley
Faith
Satan
Result
Face
Three
Own
Difficulties
Others
Our
Some
Attacks
Sinful
Lord
Still
Due
Test
Sources
Sent
Us
Choices
Originate
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson
Faith
Science
Matter
Will
Every
Assumption
Relentlessly
About
Part
Blind
Blind Faith
How
Test
Passionately
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Expressed
Suffice
I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test.
Fannie Lou Hamer
You
Training
Beat
Had
Voter
Know
Pass
How
Test
Were
Been
Jail
Just
Literacy
Register
Registration
Us
Teaching
Workshop
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