Queen Rania Of Jordan Quotes

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

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

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

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

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

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

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

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

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

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

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

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

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

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

Being queen is overrated.

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

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.

Modernity is not about dress codes.

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

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

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

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.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

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.

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

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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.

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

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.