We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThese wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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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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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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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.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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