Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Mariane Pearl

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French journalist Mariane Pearl.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Mariane Pearl

Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl is a French freelance journalist and a former reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was the Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, during the early months of the United States' War on Terror.

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish. — © Mariane Pearl
Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.
Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.
In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.
Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.
I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.
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