Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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 we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
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I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
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Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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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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True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
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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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There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.
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I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.
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I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
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Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
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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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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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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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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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My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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Good luck - it's always ready to use in case.
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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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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 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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I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.