Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.
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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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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 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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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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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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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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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
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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 know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
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I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.
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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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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
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I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
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If it never rained, nothing would grow.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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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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What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.