Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
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Great communication begins with connection.
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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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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
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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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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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You alone are enough.
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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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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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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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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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I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.
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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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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.
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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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Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
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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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I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
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Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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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.