Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
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I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".
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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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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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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 am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!
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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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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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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 became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
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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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We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
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The ultimate comfort zone is within.
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?