Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!
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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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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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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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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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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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"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 know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
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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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Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
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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 I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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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.
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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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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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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?
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Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.
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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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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.