Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.

Oprah Winfrey

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Door

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • May
  • True
  • Humility

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Door
  • Train

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Exercise
  • Temptation
  • Pains

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Opportunity
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Opportunity
  • Band
  • Singing

• What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • May
  • Faith
  • Wish

• Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don't eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I'll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Pretty
  • Eat
  • Much

• 'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

  

  Jeffrey Wright

• Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Door