Barbara Bush Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - First Lady June 8, 1925 - April 17, 2018

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Family Success You People

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Life Time You Regret

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Problems Grow Human Thrive

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

Life Family Think Important Very

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Friendship Value Your Relationships

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

People Hate Think Dirty

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

You Luck Think Step

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

Son Bad Boy Boy Bad

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

Opinion Personal Things Left

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

Hate Someone Choice Just

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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

Change Yourself Time Blue

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Family Friends Friends And Family

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Yourself Time Believe Ideas

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Life Family Faith You

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

You Take Come Detour

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Mind Opening Own Giving

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

Home People World Look

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Marriage Children Man First

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

You Sister Die Your

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

Garden I Can Want Over

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parenting Parents Who About

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

Day White Wish Someone

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Think Country Better Morals

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Politics You Think Lord

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Women You People Parents

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Family Strong You Your

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