Roles In Life Quotes

• However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

  Brian Aldiss

  Roles, Can Do

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Light, Soul, Roles

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• 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

  Unique, Destiny, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

  LeCrae

  Roles, Fiction, Stories

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• 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

  Play, Individuality, Identity

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

  Robert Greene

  Roles, World, Want

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2016

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• 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

  Mother, Wife, Personality

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• 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

  Oysters, Pearls, Life Is

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• I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

  Meat Loaf

  True Love, Alternatives, Roles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

  James Cook

  Mother, Important, Roles

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• I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Motherhood, Essentials, Roles

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• 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

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• 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

  Choices, Contentment, Different

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• 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

  Spiritual, May, Path

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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

  Humble, School, Thinking

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• 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

  Men, Rights, Order

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• I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

  Chad Lowe

  Character, Challenges, Hiv

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Daughter, Powerful

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• 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

  Science, Tolerance, Religion

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• the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Taken, Adults, Roles

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Home

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

  John Guare

  Real, Believe, Artist

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• 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

  Long, People, Roles

  "Email (let's drop the hyphen)". Article on a personal home page at Stanford University, www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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• 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

  Acting, Roles, Looks

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• We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Mean, Roots, Guy

  Source: thepointmag.com

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