Queen Rania Of Jordan Quotes

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

Modernity is not about dress codes.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Being queen is overrated.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives ... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.