100+ Testing Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Journey

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."

- Burt Rutan

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do"

- Benjamin Spock

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- General George S. Patton

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring."

- Sugar Ray Leonard

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

- C. S. Lewis

"If you don’t do your revision properly, you know what’ll happen? YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

- Sir Ian McKellen, channelling Gandalf from Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

- Edsger Dijkstra

"If we wait for the moment when absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin."

- Ivan Turgenev

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that."

- Michelle Obama

"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation; provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease; and give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to reach their full potential."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

- Mother Teresa

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"A good tester prevents problems; a great tester finds them."

- Keith Klain

"In software testing, the earlier a bug is found, the cheaper it is to fix."

- Karen N. Johnson

"The job of testing is not to find bugs but to find features that don't meet the user's needs."

- Michael Bolton

"You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth."

- Brian Grazer

"Testing can show the presence of bugs but never their absence."

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

"Testing is a skill that you can learn. It's more a mindset than a specific process."

- Janet Gregory

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"It’s the job that’s never started as takes the longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s not the time to look for excuses."

- Rafael Nadal

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get."

- Lando Norris

"Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely."

- Richelle Goodrich

"A woodsman was once asked, ‘What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?’ He answered, ‘I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.”"

- Anonymous woodsman, popularly attributed to Abraham Lincoln

"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."

- David Ogilvy

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstance, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

"Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact."

- Jennifer Hyman

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."

- Sir Terry Pratchett

"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

- William Kingdon Clifford

"My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s procrastination."

- Ron Cooper

"No gains without pains."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences."

- Evander Holyfield

"Quality is everyone's responsibility."

- W. Edwards Deming

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

- John Ruskin

"Testing is not responsible for creating quality; only for assessing it."

- Daniel J. Galin

"Testing is a skill. While this statement is obvious, it is profound in its implications."

- Bret Pettichord

"The goal of a tester is to stop the software from shipping, not to find bugs."

- Michael Stahl

"Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous."

- James Bach

"Software developers are always testing as they build. Testers are always building as they test."

- Michael Bolton

"Testing is a critical part of software development. Without testing, the software is likely to have defects."

- John Tukey

"Testing is the process of evaluating a product by learning about it through exploration and experimentation."

- Michael Bolton

"Testing is not about proving something right but discovering where things go wrong."

- Michael Bolton

"Testing is a process that should convince us that our software works, not just confirm that it doesn't."

- Jeff Patton

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

- William A. Foster

"Testing, we will never do enough of it."

- Greg LeMond

"Testing oneself is best when done alone."

- Jimmy Carter

"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine."

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

"If you don't automate your testing process, you're driving your car with your eyes closed."

- Gwen Stewart

"Automated testing is crucial for software quality."

- Julian Harty

"With automation tools, you can take the time to refine your tests and make them less brittle."

- Martin Fowler

"The secret to scalable automation is making sure you’re testing the right thing at a high level."

- Lisa Crispin

"Automating tests is like investing in a reliable credit score. Manual testing is like investing in a lucky rabbit’s foot."

- Brett Speckman

"Automation is a bit like a cheat code for software testing; using this hack, you can practice agile testing without having to do it all manually."

- Torbjorn Gyllebring

"Test automation isn't automatic; it requires a lot more thought and design than just recording a test script."

- Michael Bolton

"Automation is an accelerator, not a replacement. It's about putting brains in your muscles."

- Chris Launey

"Manual software testing will always be needed. Automating everything is impossible."

- Alan Page

"The best part of manual testing is that it can find something automated testing never will."

- Michael Bolton

"The purpose of automated testing is to reduce the risk of failure of your application."

- Frank DeGeorge

"Testing validates requirements, and manual testing provides the necessary feedback for requirements refinement and improvement."

- Rex Black

"Manual testing is still the best way to catch the things that hackers catch."

- Curtis Melody

"Manual testing is the only way to verify that the business requirements are successfully met and the customer gets the desired experience."

- Priyanka Sharma

"The purpose of performance testing is not to break the system but to improve the performance."

- Jamie Posey

"Performance testing is not about finding bugs but bottlenecks."

- Scott Barber

"Performance testing helps organizations identify system performance bottlenecks and implement corrective measures before it's too late."

- Julian Harty

"In the race for quality, there is no finish line."

- David T. Kearns

"Testing is not about finding all the bugs and defects. It's about finding the critical ones that matter."

- Anonymous

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

- Steve Jobs

"Quality is not just meeting customer needs, it's also meeting future expectations."

- Masaaki Imai

"Quality is when the customer comes back, not the product."

- Hermann Tietz

"Testing is a process that calls for repeatability, consistency, and attention to detail."

- Dave Kelly

"Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process."

- Cem Kaner

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something."

- Ben Foster

"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

"The art of software testing is to ensure that no bugs make it to production."

- Anonymous

"Manual testing can uncover issues that automated tests would never find."

- David Cohn

"Manual testing is the act of exercising the software with the intent of finding bugs and vulnerabilities that may exist."

- Network Intelligence India

"Manual testing is like a fine wine that only gets better with time."

- Vijay Nair

"Testing is not about breaking software; it's about breaking illusions about the software."

- Anonymous

"Software is a great combination of artistry and engineering."

- Bill Gates

"Manual testing enables us to tailor testing to your unique application needs."

- Michael Larsen

"Testing is like cleaning. It's only visible when you don't do it."

- Anonymous

"Effective performance testing involves a combination of technical skill, common sense, and creativity."

- James Pulley

"Performance testing allows you to find out how your application handles a variety of user scenarios."

- Naomi Karten

"Testing is not about making things go wrong; it's about finding out what could go wrong."

- Anonymous

"Performance testing is a key process in ensuring your application is not only functional but also performs efficiently across different user scenarios."

- Pravin Jangale

"Testing is the only job where you can be happy for having your work rejected."

- Anonymous

"Performance testing helps identify the scalability bottlenecks and validate the non-functional requirements of the application."

- K.D. Khattar

"Performance testing is an art and science mixed together."

- Sujit Karpe

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Fear, inherently, is not meant to limit you. Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome."

- Unknown

"If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice."

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."

- Unknown

"Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will."

- Unknown