Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.
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Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
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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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Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.
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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.
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You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.
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I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
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I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.
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In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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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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What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?
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The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
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For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.
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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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You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.