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.
BARBARA BUSHYou may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH






