Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
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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 think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
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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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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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When you do your best, people notice.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
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When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
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There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.
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I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
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Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.