Richard M. DeVos Quotes

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Richard M. DeVos

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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson

• I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Distance

• I was real skinny in high school. I was real fast and explosive. I just didn't really have a good nutrition plan; I didn't understand how important it was to be healthy. I was eating hot fries, potato chips in the morning, Capri Sun. That was like my breakfast. That changed when I got to college - I put on 20 pounds of muscle.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Real

• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Tired

• The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • American

• You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

  

  Joe Garcia

• From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Up
  • Power
  • American

• No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

  

  James Fallows
  • History
  • Present
  • Choices

• I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

  

  Katori Hall
  • People

• A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Parents
  • Star
  • Child

• Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Understanding
  • Diversity
  • Involved

• I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Strong
  • Doubt
  • Messages

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Up
  • Amazing

• I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Leadership