Quotes from Rose Kennedy

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.