Top 895 Quotes & Sayings by Oprah Winfrey - Page 10

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

Life is better when you share it.

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

You are worthy because you were born.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow.

All pain is the same.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.