Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.
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If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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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.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.
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Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
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One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.