Princess Diana Quotes

Only do what your heart tells you.

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.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

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

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

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

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

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

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?

Being a princess isn't all 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.

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

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

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'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

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

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

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

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

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.

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

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.

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

Everybody needs hugs.

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

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

Life is just a journey.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

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

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

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

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.

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

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

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.