Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
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I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.
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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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I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
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You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
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I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
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I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.
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I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
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God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.
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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
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It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.
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I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that the lawsuit was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
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I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.
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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
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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.