Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHThere are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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.
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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.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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