Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.
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I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.
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I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
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There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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All you need to do is know who you are.
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
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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.
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What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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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.
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The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
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Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.
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I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.