Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • True
  • Celebrity

• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• 'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Giving

• I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Important
  • Play
  • Enough

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Politics
  • Shy
  • Reserved

• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Release

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Like

• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

  

  George Washington
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Withstand

• Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Immortality
  • Valor

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Want
  • Face
  • Decency

• Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Want

• Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Can Do
  • Until