Selected Princess Diana Quotes
"Life is just a journey."
Princess Diana, Life
"Call me Diana, not Princess Diana."
Princess Diana, Success
"I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be."
Princess Diana, Success
"Don’t call me an icon. I’m just a mother trying to help."
Princess Diana, Success
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
Princess Diana, Love
"People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me."
Princess Diana, Sex, Work
"I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned."
Princess Diana, Life
"I have a woman’s instinct and it’s always a good one."
Princess Diana, Sex
"There’s no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it."
Princess Diana, Life
"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."
Princess Diana, Love
"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential."
Princess Diana, Goals
"The day I walked down the aisle at St. Paul’s Cathedral, I felt that my personality was taken away from me, and I was taken over by the royal machine."
Princess Diana, Government, Life
"It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me."
Princess Diana, Success
"I felt compelled to perform. Well, when I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them."
Princess Diana, Goals
"It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do."
Princess Diana, Government, Goals
"Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children."
Princess Diana, Love
"You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable."
Princess Diana, Life
"I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
Princess Diana, Love, Happiness, Goals
"I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work."
Princess Diana, Love
"I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact."
Princess Diana, Kindness, Friendship
"I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Wealth
"If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each."
Princess Diana, Sex
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."
Princess Diana, Society
"Being a princess isn't all that it's cracked up to be."
Princess Diana, Work, Success
"I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know where it was. I didn't know if it was coming next year or next month. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going."
Princess Diana, Life
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
Princess Diana, Kindness
"I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it."
Princess Diana, Love
"I want to do, not just to be."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Only do what your heart tells you."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them."
Princess Diana, Work, Love
"The biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved."
Princess Diana, Society, Love
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
Princess Diana, Goals, Happiness
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
Princess Diana, Happiness, Wealth
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
Princess Diana, Goals, Freedom, Society
"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Forgive
"Family is the most important thing in the world."
Princess Diana, Life
"So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them."
Princess Diana, Life
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
Princess Diana, Society
"I lead from the heart, not the head."
Princess Diana, Management
"I don't go by the rule book."
Princess Diana, Anger and Fighting
"Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
Princess Diana, Kindness
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Goals, Life
"I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."