Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.
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Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
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Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
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The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
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The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
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There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
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I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.
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I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
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I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.
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To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.