"“Where she’s been brilliant is in her quietness,” one press secretary would observe. “**In a very noisy world where people constantly want to express themselves or overreact, what the Queen has done has been the opposite**.” "She was not empowered to have political opinions yet she was strong enough to do something most world leaders as well as ordinary people are powerless to do: **refrain from expressing opinions about things we don’t control**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[consistency]], [[self-reflection]], [[self-control]], [[Queen Elizabeth]] **Source** -- [[202409150124 - B - Discipline is Destiny]]