I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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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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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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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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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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