Richard DeVos Quotes

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

Act confident, even when you're not.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

The key thing is confidence, and you get that from the actions that you take. It can be anything from getting chicks, being in a fight, having success at work, having a good family. A lot of that stuff comes from having confidence, so that's one of the biggest things.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

I've learned to go with your instincts. To go with your strengths and believe in yourself.

I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.