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 Bush
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Wisdom
I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Advice
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!
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Audiences
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.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Living
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Career
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.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Work, Luck, One Step at a Time, Fortune, Opportunity
Believe in something larger than yourself… Get involved in the big ideas of your time.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Ideas, Belief
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Appreciation
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It’s a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife, the way to stay close is to do things together and share.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Togetherness
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
—Barbara Bush
Topics: Family
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