Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Princess Diana
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British royalty Princess Diana.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. 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.
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
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. I want to do, not just to be.
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
I'm as thick as a plank.
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
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?
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
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.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
Life is just a journey.
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
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. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Only do what your heart tells you.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.
It's not sissy to show your feeling.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me
... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.
Everybody needs hugs.
There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.
I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.
Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.
I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
I was compelled to perform. 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. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.
You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.
The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.
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