Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
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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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There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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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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Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.
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I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.
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When people show you who they are ... believe them!
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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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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Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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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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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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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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Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
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There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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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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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
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You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.
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The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.