Roles In Life Quotes

Roles In Life Quotes by William Torrey Harris, Tom Spanbauer, Betty Friedan, Joan D. Chittister, Stephen Covey, Donald Knuth and many others.

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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.
William Torrey Harris
Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
Tom Spanbauer
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
Betty Friedan
Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
Joan D. Chittister
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
Stephen Covey
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.
Donald Knuth
If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don’t we’ll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we’ve been given.
Linda Dillow
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
Ross Perot
No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe’s role in life more than another.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there’s a tendency to revert to that – to pull back, recede. I don’t think it’s advisable or admirable.
Katherine Helmond
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
Brian Aldiss
Like most of us, I’m used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit ‘multiple-personality’.
Sophie Kinsella
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.
Alan Watts
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
Robert Greene
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man’s duties in order to be equal in rights.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.
Angelina Jolie
When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.
Helen Mirren