Richard M. DeVos Quotes

I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.

Richard M. DeVos

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Years
  • Old
  • Been

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Remember
  • Way

• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Once
  • Entitlement

• If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

  

  Sally Field
  • Forever
  • Back
  • Been

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Old

• I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Done
  • Job

• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Remember

• I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It's still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, 'Be slow to anger.'

  

  Bernice King
  • God
  • Remember
  • Age

• Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

  

  Sean Paul
  • Remember
  • Fighting

• I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Team
  • Player

• Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Remember
  • American
  • Happy

• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Science
  • Scary
  • Storms

• I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Remember
  • Positive
  • Been