[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWhen life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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