Top 85 Princess Diana Quotes

#1. Life is just a journey.

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#2. At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

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#3. HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

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#4. The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

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#5. I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

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#8. There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

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#9. So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

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#10. 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.

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#11. It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

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#12. I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

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#13. The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

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#14. People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

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#15. I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

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#16. I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

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#17. 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.

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#18. Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

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#19. I'm as thick as a plank.

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#20. One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

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#21. I decline to go fox hunting.

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#22. I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

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#23. If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

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#24. You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.

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#25. I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

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#26. I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

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#27. I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

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#28. You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

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#29. I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

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#30. I am never going to get divorced, and that's that.

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#31. [On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

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#32. I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

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#33. I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

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#34. As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

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#35. Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

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#36. I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

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#37. I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

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#38. No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But ... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role ... I love being with people.

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#39. It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

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#40. There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

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#41. I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

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#42. Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.

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#43. [On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

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#44. Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

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#45. All people want to be touched.

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#46. I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

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#47. Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

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#48. 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.

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#49. 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.

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#50. I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

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#51. Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

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#52. I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

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#53. Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

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#54. My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

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#55. I don't go by the rule book

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#56. I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

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#57. My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

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#58. 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.

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#59. You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

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#60. A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

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#61. What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

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#62. I love meeting people and helping them.

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#63. You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

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#64. I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

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#65. 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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#66. I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

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#67. I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

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#68. 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.

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#69. From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

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#70. I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

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#71. The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

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#72. Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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#73. I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

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#74. I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

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#75. 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.

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#76. I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

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#77. I don't go by the rule book ... I lead from the heart, not the head.

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#78. The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

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#79. I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

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#80. I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

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#81. The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

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#82. I am always going to be true to myself.

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#83. 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.

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#84. 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.

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#85. As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life.

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