Top 895 Quotes & Sayings by Oprah Winfrey - Page 13

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

Intent and service-that is my motto.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.

I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!

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?

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

What least makes a mother is biology.

I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.