Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.
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There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
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How you spend your time defines who you are.
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Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
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You are awareness disguised as a human being.
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Live from the heart of yourself.
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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 don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.
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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.
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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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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
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Free speech not only lives, it rocks!
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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
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I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
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My response is that I love the church.
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If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.
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God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
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Leadership is about empathy.
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If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
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Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.