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“For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.”

Sometimes Character Faces Hero Tests Defeat Triumph Defeated

Author:Cressida Cowell

“Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”

“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”

Long Matter Character Leadership Ability Emotion Emotional Skills Achievement Tests Intelligence Conventional Definite Long Life Cognitive Life And Happiness

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.”

People Needs Persons Character Tests Treats Parenting Treatment People In Your Life Broadcasters

Author:Lee Corso

“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.”

Men Kind Country Character Turns Cities Human Nature Civilization Ethics Tests Size Crops Census

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“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.”

Doe Character Christian Jesus Left Attitude Tests Good Christian Blockades

Author:Lester Roloff

“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.”

Knows Giving Character Opportunity Sports White Player Personality Tests Shining Bones Motivational Sports Short Sports Beauty Within

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”

Character Tests Intellect Stupidity Silly

Author:John K. Fairbank

“Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit”

Character Habit Tests Encouragement Very Good Quitting Accomplished Smoking Bad Habits Quit Smoking

Author:Abraham Maslow

“The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.”

Ifs Way Ideas Character Form Quality Capable Tests Surprise Rounds Sentences Factors Crafts Desert Flats Surprising Curves Convincing One Sentence Micawber

Author:E. M. Forster

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”

Want Should Writing Character Care Together Fiction Hell Failing Trouble Land Succeed Tests Good Writing Good Writers Fiction Writers Bad Writing

Author:Mark Twain

“No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.”

Reason Character Religion Values Wealth Changed Birth Tests Possession Titles Merit Metaphysics Reconstruction

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent.”

Ifs Matter States Character Use Objects Benefits Tests Congress Locals Appropriate Federalism Locality

Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

“Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”

People War Character Energy Nations Difficult President Ability Decision Effort Moral Tests Congress Uniting

Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

“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.”

Moments Character Form Our Lives Habit Built Direct Tests Trials Daily Life Routine Commonplace Workshops Good Habits Great Moments

Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.”

Character Life Is Path Fate Fairs Tests Obstacles Funny Character

Author:Melissa Francis

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”

Men Doe Real Character Christian Tests Tired Christian Inspirational Real Character

Author:Winston Churchill

“What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?”

Ifs Men Firsts Character Use Care Taken Tests Wine Train Innocent Cheaper Adapted Second Place Festive Character Of A Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)