Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
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When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.
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What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
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Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
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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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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.
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Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. I believe you can only do this when you stop long enough to hear the whisper you might have drowned out, that small voice compelling you toward the kind of work you'd be willing to do even if you weren't paid. Once you tune out the noise of your life and hear that call, you face the biggest challenge of all: to find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.