Top 40 Diane Sawyer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.”

— Diane Sawyer

2. “The dream is not the destination but the journey.”

— Diane Sawyer

3. “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”

— Diane Sawyer

4. “One day you’re the statue. One day you’re the pigeon.”

— Diane Sawyer

5. “Hope changes everything, doesn’t it?”

— Diane Sawyer

6. “Great questions make great reporting.”

— Diane Sawyer

7. “Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”

— Diane Sawyer

8. “The most fun is getting paid to learn things.”

— Diane Sawyer

9. “A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”

— Diane Sawyer

10. “Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!”

— Diane Sawyer

11. “Don’t let other people tell you who you are.”

— Diane Sawyer

12. “Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer.”

— Diane Sawyer

13. “Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.”

— Diane Sawyer

14. “Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.”

— Diane Sawyer

15. “I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I’m not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn’t.”

— Diane Sawyer

16. “Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition.”

— Diane Sawyer

17. “Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.”

— Diane Sawyer

18. “The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

— Diane Sawyer

19. “An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.”

— Diane Sawyer

20. “I have a contract but it’s not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It’s our ongoing conversation.”

— Diane Sawyer

21. “Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.”

— Diane Sawyer

22. “If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.”

— Diane Sawyer

23. “Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.”

— Diane Sawyer

24. “I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I’m Martha Stewart.”

— Diane Sawyer

25. “The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.”

— Diane Sawyer

26. “I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth.”

— Diane Sawyer

27. “Memory diffuses fact.”

— Diane Sawyer

28. “I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.”

— Diane Sawyer

29. “People assume you can’t be shy and be on television. They’re wrong.”

— Diane Sawyer

30. “I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”

— Diane Sawyer

31. “Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.”

— Diane Sawyer

32. “I like talking. I didn’t know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.”

— Diane Sawyer

33. “Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.”

— Diane Sawyer

34. “People tend to vote the present tense – not the subjective.”

— Diane Sawyer

35. “I don’t think it’s about entertainment. I think it’s about being ourselves.”

— Diane Sawyer

36. “American Idol, I love. I think it’s a passing fancy but not passing so soon.”

— Diane Sawyer

37. “If there were a rehab for curiosity; I’d be in it.”

— Diane Sawyer

38. “I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.”

— Diane Sawyer

39. “I think no one knows my politics.”

— Diane Sawyer

40. “I don’t know why I’m saying I’m brave.”

— Diane Sawyer

41. “We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.”

— Diane Sawyer