A Quote by Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Norman Vincent Peale
American - Priest
May 31, 1898 - December 24, 1993

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

Bill Courtney

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Nick Murray

Secretary Tillerson is not going anywhere. I can vouch for that. He is where he is, he continues to be strong in how he handles foreign policy, and I continue to work well with him.

Nikki Haley

It is alright when things are going well, but everyone always says it is how you deal with things when they are going badly.

Daniel James

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

Bill Courtney

I`m obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

Chuck Todd

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Viggo Mortensen

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

William Sloane Coffin

It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?

Bob Myers

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Baron Vaughn

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media and things that I say.

Danny Ainge

Since I fought Bigfoot, I've actually become a big fan of his, the way he carries himself and the way he handles himself. You have to respect the guy, with what he's done in the sport. With that said, I'd still love to compete against him and hopefully one day avenge that loss, if that's in the cards.

Travis Browne

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

Bobby Knight

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.

Van Jones

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

William J. Clinton

He's a tremendous human being - and that's on top of all of his talent. It's about the way he handles things and the way he approaches matches; he studies, he prepares and he takes advantage of opportunities when he needs to.

Alex Riley

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