If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy-one!”
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Chance, Dreams
Life … tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Life, Expectation
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Courage, Bravery
The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It’s cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Possibilities, Opportunity, Potential
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Belief, Confidence
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Money
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope.
And you can do it when things are tough.
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Optimism, Praise
The easiest thing to find on God’s green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
—Richard DeVos
If I had some idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
—Richard DeVos
Topics: Possibilities, Potential
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