Top 180 Danielle Steel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you’ll find them.”

— Danielle Steel

Featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Quotes About Hope, Desire Quotes

2. “Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

— Danielle Steel

3. “Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever.”

— Danielle Steel

4. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.”

— Danielle Steel

5. “Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”

— Danielle Steel

6. “Don’t worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.”

— Danielle Steel

7. “Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can’t avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works.”

— Danielle Steel

8. “Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

— Danielle Steel

Featured in: Romance Quotes

9. “If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”

— Danielle Steel

10. “Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.”

— Danielle Steel

Featured in: Bullying Quotes

11. “Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”

— Danielle Steel

12. “Things work out the way they’re meant to.”

— Danielle Steel

Featured in: Romance Quotes

13. “Don’t make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

— Danielle Steel

14. “If it’s meant to be, they’ll find a way to make it work eventually.”

— Danielle Steel

15. “This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can’t live without each other after that.”

— Danielle Steel

16. “Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.”

— Danielle Steel

17. “I work too hard and don’t play enough.”

— Danielle Steel

18. “You don’t need to show off your body to catch a boy’s eye. You’d best learn that early on, or you’ll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.”

— Danielle Steel

19. “Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

— Danielle Steel

20. “Remember me? I’m back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don’t want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It’s a rule that seems to work well for me.”

— Danielle Steel

21. “You’d be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

— Danielle Steel

22. “If you let life pass you by now, it won’t ever come back. You don’t get another chance.”

— Danielle Steel

23. “It’s hard being visible, so I’ve made myself invisible.”

— Danielle Steel

24. “Life, a good life, a great life is about “Why not?” May we never forget it.”

— Danielle Steel

25. “People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”

— Danielle Steel

26. “I started writing stories as a child.”

— Danielle Steel

27. “There was nothing you couldn’t do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.”

— Danielle Steel

28. “Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire.” – Talmud.”

— Danielle Steel

29. “I never met a chocolate I could not eat.”

— Danielle Steel

Featured in: National Chocolate Day Quotes

30. “I don’t need a man to be happy. I had a great one, that was good enough. I don’t expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I’m going ot be perfectly content alone. – Marya.”

— Danielle Steel

31. “You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”

— Danielle Steel

32. “Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.”

— Danielle Steel

33. “Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart, and lives forever.”

— Danielle Steel

34. “Who doesn’t need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?”

— Danielle Steel

35. “Feelings aren’t sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

— Danielle Steel

36. “Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”

— Danielle Steel

37. “Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.”

— Danielle Steel

38. “When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.”

— Danielle Steel

39. “Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.”

— Danielle Steel

40. “You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.”

— Danielle Steel

41. “I’m one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it’s ok to be different, and from now on we’d better be, if we’re going to make something of ourselves. It’s the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria.”

— Danielle Steel

42. “He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.”

— Danielle Steel

43. “You have more balls than a Christmas tree.”

— Danielle Steel

44. “I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.”

— Danielle Steel

45. “Some battles just aren’t worth fighting. You have to know how to pick them. Don’t wear yourself out on the small stuff, Merrie. Save yourself for the big stuff.”

— Danielle Steel

46. “It’s all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It’s amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.”

— Danielle Steel

47. “Whatever age you are,” her mother said tartly, “age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel ‘too old’ at any age, if you let yourself. You’re never too old or too young for anything, you’re just the right age.”

— Danielle Steel

48. “I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.”

— Danielle Steel

49. “What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?”

— Danielle Steel

50. “I studied literature design and fashion design.”

— Danielle Steel