Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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.
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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 stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.
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Intent and service-that is my motto.
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Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
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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've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
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Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.
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Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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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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If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
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Your life is a reflection of how you think.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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When people show you who they are ... believe them!
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We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.