Oprah Winfrey
television presenter, patron of the arts, television producer, film producer, businessperson, actor, voice actor, writer, talk show host, autobiographer, journalist, presenter, podcaster
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All Quotes by Oprah Winfrey
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
“When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”
“Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.”
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
“Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.”
“With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.”
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Every day, you're only as good as your last show.”
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.”
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.”
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”
“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
“Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.”
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.”
“In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.”
“When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.”
“I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!”
“My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!”
“I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.”
“I'm still off hamburgers.”
“I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.”
“It felt like a new day.”
“I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?”
“What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.”
“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.”
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
“You alone are enough.”
“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.”
“I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.”
“I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.”
“The thing that I do best is "Be Here. Be Now".”
“Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
“The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.”
“With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.”
“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
“Once I commit to something and I have a full hearted desire to see it work, I can’t imagine what it would take to make me quit.”