Top 120 Danielle Steel Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.”

— Danielle Steel

102. “And so far, their most recent results had been perfect. Their meetings in Germany and Switzerland had gone brilliantly. The testing done in their laboratories there was even more rigorous than what had been done in the States. They were sure now. It was safe. They could move ahead to Phase One Human Trials, as soon as the FDA approved it, which meant giving low doses of the medication to a select number of willing, well-informed subjects, and seeing how they fared.”

— Danielle Steel

103. “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...”

— Danielle Steel

104. “The weather in Paris was unusually warm as Peter Haskell’s plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The plane taxied neatly to the gate, and a few minutes later, briefcase in hand, Peter was striding through the airport. He was almost smiling as he got on the customs line, despite the heat of the day and the number of people crowding ahead of him in line. Peter Haskell loved Paris.”

— Danielle Steel

105. “Holiday or business, monsieur?” The customs officer looked unconcerned as he stamped Peter’s passport, and barely glanced up at him after looking at the picture. He had blue eyes and dark hair and looked younger than his forty-four years. He had fine features, he was tall, and most people would have agreed that he was handsome.”

— Danielle Steel

106. “His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.”

— Danielle Steel

107. “He had that instinctive sense of great artists to know when a work was complete and move on.”

— Danielle Steel

108. “Look at Christ on the cross. Think of the challenge that must have been for Him. The agony of betrayal by people He had trusted, and death. And afterward came the resurrection. He proved that no challenge, no matter how great, could end His love for us.”

— Danielle Steel

109. “The judge arrived half an hour later with the file he had collected from his office on the way, signed several papers, had Sam sign them, the matron witness them; Josh cried, Norm cried, she cried, the judge grinned, and Timmie waved his teddy bear at the judge with a broad grin as they wheeled into the elevator. “So long!” he shouted, and when the doors closed, the judge was laughing and crying too.”

— Danielle Steel

110. “I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.”

— Danielle Steel

111. “I’m still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I’ve been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don’t think we have a right to do that.”

— Danielle Steel

112. “Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.”

— Danielle Steel

113. “All rights reserved. No part of this book may.”

— Danielle Steel

114. “Yesterday’s happenings are the reasons of Today’s situation.”

— Danielle Steel

115. “I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you’re not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you’re thirty-eight and you’ve given up all your dreams. I don’t want to do that again. That’s why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.”

— Danielle Steel

116. “Hang in. We’ll make it. We all have each other.”

— Danielle Steel

117. “Carole decided.”

— Danielle Steel

118. “Most of us don’t see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives,” he said quietly. “We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising, don’t you think?”

— Danielle Steel

119. “I do not believe in age,” he said with determination. “It is a very small idea. Like a small box. That box is too small for you. You have no limits, you are free.”

— Danielle Steel

120. “Good and bad stuff happens to us every day. It’s how you handle it, and what you do about it, that counts. You can’t just let it break you. You have to keep fighting. And guilt and regrets get us nowhere.”

— Danielle Steel

121. “It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.”

— Danielle Steel

122. “She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.”

— Danielle Steel

123. “Wilson-Donovan wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible to clinical trials on patients, which was why it was so important to test Vicotec’s safety now before the FDA hearings in September, which would hopefully put it on the “Fast Track.” Peter was absolutely sure that the testing being concluded by Paul-Louis Suchard, the head of the laboratory in Paris, would only confirm the good news he had just been given in Geneva.”

— Danielle Steel

124. “Don’t hate anyone,” Beata said quietly. “It’s too much work. And it only poisons you.”

— Danielle Steel

125. “I never wanted to settle for ‘good enough.’ I wanted ‘great’ or nothing.”

— Danielle Steel

126. “It makes you realize how small you are, and no matter what you plan, God has a bigger idea, and you’re not the one in charge.”

— Danielle Steel

127. “Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient.”

— Danielle Steel

128. “I think a lot of women will be in your situation. They’re an important part of the workforce now, and they won’t want to give that up when the men come home. They’ve gotten some independence, even if they’re not paid as well as men. That’s not fair, but at least they’ve gotten out of the kitchen, and into offices and factories. It’s a big step for women.”

— Danielle Steel

129. “Some people are just different, even in the same family.”

— Danielle Steel

130. “Just be careful. Learn your lessons well, and always follow your instincts.”

— Danielle Steel

131. “They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole.”

— Danielle Steel

132. “It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” – Anne Frank.”

— Danielle Steel

133. “The boys who do have a moral compass, and a conscience, will turn out to be decent people and good men one day. They’ve learned a hell of a lesson here, but in the end, they’re finding their way to do the right thing.”

— Danielle Steel