Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.
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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 journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.
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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
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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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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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If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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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 always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
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It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.
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No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.
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You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.
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When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
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You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
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Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time.
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Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.
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I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.
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So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.
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You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.
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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.
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.