Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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Don't live your life to please other people.
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.
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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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I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.
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The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
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I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
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You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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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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When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.
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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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
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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 next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.