C. Elizabeth Quotes

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

When 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.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.

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.

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I have to be seen to be believed.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

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.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.

Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Be attentive to the voice of grace.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.