Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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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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If it never rained, nothing would grow.
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You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
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God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow.
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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
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I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.
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Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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You alone are enough.
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I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.