All Time Famous Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

Queen Rania of Jordan is the queen consort of King Abdullah II of Jordan. Born on August 31, 1970, as Rania Al-Yassin, she became queen upon her husband’s ascension to the throne in 1999. Queen Rania is known for her advocacy work in areas such as education, health, and community development. She has been involved in various initiatives to promote education and youth empowerment, both in Jordan and globally. Queen Rania has also been active on social media, using platforms like Twitter and Instagram to connect with people and raise awareness about issues close to her heart.

Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

1. “Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

2. “In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

3. “You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

4. “Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

5. “My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

6. “I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

7. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

8. “We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

9. “If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

10. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

11. “I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

12. “I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

13. “I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

14. “Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

15. “To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

16. “Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

17. “Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

18. “Everybody’s social life in Jordan revolves around family.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

19. “I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

20. “Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

21. “Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

22. “I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

23. “Being queen is overrated.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

24. “Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

25. “When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

26. “Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

27. “I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that’s what keeps you alive. That’s what keeps you from getting stale.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

28. “Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

29. “Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

30. “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. It’s also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

31. “By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

32. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

33. “I’ve learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

34. “The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I’ve been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It’s helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don’t matter.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

35. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

36. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

37. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

38. “We’re programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it’s done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It’s just that our perception of it isn’t.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

39. “I’d rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

40. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

41. “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.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

42. “Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?”
— Queen Rania of Jordan

43. “I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan