Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
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Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
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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 luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
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If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
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Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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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.
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When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
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You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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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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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.
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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
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You become what you believe.
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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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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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You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
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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.