Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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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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Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
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The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
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You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.
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We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.
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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.
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Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
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You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
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You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.
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If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
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If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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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 know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.
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What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.
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God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.
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I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?
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I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.