Diana, Princess of Wales was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Profoundly inspirational Princess Diana quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Princess Diana Quotes
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.
Being a princess isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.
I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts.
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.
I’ve got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am
I don’t go by the rule book.
Only do what your heart tells you.
I lead from the heart, not the head.
I have a woman’s instinct, and it’s always a good one.
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
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.
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
It’s not sissy to show your feelings.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
One day, I’m going to go up in a helicopter, and it’ll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me.
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.
The biggest disease in this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
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?
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?
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do.
The biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.
Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
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.
Every one 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.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
Only do what your heart tells you.
I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be
I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts but I don’t see myself being queen of this country.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
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 knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
I want to do, not just to be.
It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.
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.
Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
People think that at the end of the day, a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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.
I think every strong woman in history has had to walk down a similar path, and I think it’s the strength that causes the confusion and the fear.
Being a princess isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
This needs a woman’s touch.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang onto them.
If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
If you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.
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 wear my heart on my sleeve.
I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact.
I adore him, I have never been so happy. I have real love.
I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.
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.
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Hugs can do great amounts of good especially for children.
Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do.
Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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.
I desperately loved my husband, and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.
It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me.
The night before the wedding, I was very, very calm, deathly calm. I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter. I knew it and couldn’t do anything about it.
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.
As I was walking down the aisle of St. Paul’s on my father’s arm, I thought, What on Earth am I doing here?
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential.
Then I was unwell with postnatal depression, which no one ever discusses; postnatal depression, you have to read about it afterward, and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time. You’d wake up in the morning feeling you didn’t want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood, and just very, very low in yourself.
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
When no one listens to you, or when you feel no one’s listening to you, all sorts of things start to happen, for instance, you have so much pain inside yourself, that you try and hurt yourself on the outside.
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
I had bulimia for a number of years, and that’s like a secret disease. You inflict it upon yourself because your self esteem is at a low ebb, and you don’t think you’re worthy or valuable.
I’m aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
It was a symptom of what was going on in my marriage, I was crying out for help but giving the wrong signals, and people were using my bulimia as a coat on a hanger, they decided that was the problem. Diana was unstable.
There’s no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.
My husband asked for the separation, and I supported it.
I have a woman’s instinct and it’s always a good one.
My wish is that my husband finds peace of mind and from that follows other things, yes.
I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Don’t call me an icon. I’m just a mother trying to help.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be.
I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be.
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
I’m not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and 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’m very happy to do that, and I want to do that.
Life is just a journey.
I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I’ve had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let’s now use the knowledge I’ve gathered to help other people in distress.
