Queen Elizabeth Quotes
- “I have to be seen to be believed.”
- “It is a sort of playing with fire, to take hold of things that one knows are capable of producing great and perhaps irreparable mischief.”
- “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.”
- “I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
- “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.”
- “I have to be seen to be believed.”
- “I have always been afraid of banks.”
- “I have to be seen to be believed.”
- “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.”
- “I try to lead a normal life, the way any woman of my age would lead a normal life.”
- “I’m alive and I’m very pleased to be alive.”
- “I’m afraid I don’t know much about any kind of sport.”
- “If one is going to be a Queen, one has to rule over all the people, not just the ones you like.”
- “It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.”
- “It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.”
- “Life is only worth living if you make it a great adventure and never forget that everything you’ve achieved has been by your own initiative.”
- “Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
- “My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.”
- “One of the things that makes life really worth living is problem-solving, and figuring things out.”
- “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.”
- “There is always something new to learn and feel each Sunday.”
- “There’s only one way of dealing with people who try to make you look foolish, and that is to put them in their place.”
- “There’s nothing like it, the sheer joy of being on a horse galloping.”
- “There’s plenty of room for everyone in the world if we all live modestly and share.”
- “This is not a book about me. It is a book about what I see.”
- “To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.”
- “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.”
- “We all try to make a difference, and we hope that we will be remembered as good people, and good women in particular.”
- “We are not amused.”
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