Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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If it never rained, nothing would grow.
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What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
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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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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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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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Great communication begins with connection.
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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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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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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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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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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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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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Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.
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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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You have the RIGHT to change your mind.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
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Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.
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I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.
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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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What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
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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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If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.