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

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

Family Friends And Family Friends

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

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

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 Step Luck Think

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'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parenting Parents Who About

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

Life Family Think Important I Think

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

Time Yourself Believe Ideas

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

You Step Luck Think

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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Friendship Value Your Relationships

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 Time You Yourself

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

Good You Great Important

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

Hate People Think Compromise

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

You Come Take Detour

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Job I Can Boring Say

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

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

Society Winner Will Dream

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

You Nothing Done Listen

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

Life Family Faith You

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Family Your Being Us Being There

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

Marriage Man Children Tell

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

Hate Someone Choice Just

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

Garden I Can Want Bend

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

Myself Strong Up Really

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

Feel Know Person Office

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