Richard M Devos Quotes

#1. As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

Richard DeVos

#2. One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

Richard DeVos

#3. The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

Richard DeVos

#4. Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Richard DeVos

#5. If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

Richard DeVos

#6. In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

Kelly Miller

#7. It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

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#8. When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

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#9. I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

Richard DeVos

#10. Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.

Anton Chekhov

#11. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough

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#12. Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak!

~Sir Constant

W.E. Cule

#13. I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

George Brandis

#14. I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

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#15. You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

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#16. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#17. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Ann Patchett

#18. When life is lost, all is lost.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

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#20. Lies so convincingly you'd swear they were telling the

Abigail Strom

#21. He's not coming back. Maybe I do know this after all. Goodbye. I say to him in my head. I say it tenderly. I try to tell him with that one word how sorry I am.

Deb Caletti

#22. Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

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#23. It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

Richard DeVos

#24. If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

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#25. Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

Richard DeVos

#26. Life ... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

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#27. I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.

Richard DeVos

#28. The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

Bernardo Houssay

#29. You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.

Richard DeVos

#30. If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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#31. I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

Richard DeVos

#32. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.

Jane Mayer

#33. While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Ed Pastor