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“Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with”
George Carlin
“We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?”
Bud Wilkinson
“Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.”
Chanakya
“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”
Anthony Robbins
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C.S. Lewis
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
William Arthur Ward
“The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.”
Xenophon