Tests Quotes

“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Quinn sat back down. He leaned forward, elbows on knees. "Man, don't you remember taking tests in school? Multiple choice: A, B, C, D, or E, all of the above.
"Yeah?"
"Dude, sometimes the answer is 'all of the above.' This places needs you. And it needs Astrid. And it needs Sam. It's all of the above, Albert.”
― Michael Grant, Lies

“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Are IQ tests sacrosanct? Or do you think there is only one kind of intelligence? What about creativity? Or intuitive or emotional intelligence?”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?”
― Nora Roberts, Tribute

“You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.”
― O. R. Melling

“You've been the rabbi here for thirty years and these guys who've never set foot here want to decide who should be rabbi or not. And to lead prayer in Hebrew for Jews who speak Arabic, they want you to write in French. So I say they're nuts.”
― Joann Sfar, The Rabbi's Cat

“Grandmomma always said people were like tacos—the harder they were, the easier they broke. Being soft meant being adaptive, more flexible. “When you’re soft, you can contain more. And if you contain more, the world can’t break you.”
― L.J. Shen, Playing with Fire

“See the hurdles on your path not as obstructions, but as tools meant to prep you up for the ultimate game of life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“After a nine-headed Hydra, the ACT was kind of a letdown.”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“Demons can exist in purgatory or limbo, just as they exist on Earth, but they are there to test the soul of the sinner.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Another little test. God’s just full of ’em.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Which will be detected by an intelligence test: the ability to make some rationally demonstrable conclusion as to whether suffering injustice is better than inflicting, or the ability to tell where the trains will meet? Is it possible that we might meet some person who does indeed give himself to consider whether patience is a fixed or a changeable attribute, but can not for the life of him tell you which diagram was made from which? And one more question: How did the makers of the intelligence test come to "know" what intelligence is, that they can devise ways to measure it, and then pronounce its worth in numbers?”
― Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire

“For all her boldness, Jade was good at citing risks, naming all the things that could sabotage a life. In the weeks after a homicide in the neighborhood, elementary school kids did worse on tests. Teenagers without fathers were more likely to wind up parents before graduation. Black boys got sent to the principal's office more.”
― Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours

“Test quote”
― Test author

“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford

Fading embers of the final Christmas test,
No more the frantic angst of dawn,
Now it is poised last-minute checks,
And then the flushing of responsibility.

A fortnight of relaxation and merriment,
Awaits the temporarily-exonerated inmate,
Though it means entering the bruising storm,
Bartered freedom a passenger and guide home.

Cross the draughty, great hall, and finish line,
Whispered submission of completed exam papers,
And the old year's prescribed work is done,
Then outside, leaving others to their stress.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Practice and study what you don't know and review the stuff that you do know.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don't rely on getting easy questions. Practice for the hard ones.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.”
― Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“Until you are not tested, you cannot drive to your kingdom”
― Hiral Nagda

“Nutritional supplements may give you false or inaccurate results on medical laboratory tests.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“A series of altitude tests I had done in a day on Hawaii island damaged my right ulnar nerve. I had been to view the volcano at night at 4,000 feet. It was freezing cold up there!”
― Steven Magee

“Don't question the tests of life. Just pass them with a fire in your soul.”
― Hiral Nagda

“You say I have a track record of errors. Perhaps that is true. Time and again I’ve been tested, along with all of us, and my victories have been few.
But I have survived. I have come back from every failure.”
― Alexander Freed, The Mask of Fear

“Life may put you through difficult tests, but a victorious mindset will set you apart from the rest.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, A Manual for Victory