Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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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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Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
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I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
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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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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.
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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.
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There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.
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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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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
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The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
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Leadership is about empathy.
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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When people show you who they are ... believe them!
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.