Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.
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I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
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Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
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What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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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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Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.
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I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?
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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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If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
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Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.
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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
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When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.