Top 895 Quotes & Sayings by Oprah Winfrey - Page 15

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

Reading gave me hope.

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

Let passion drive your profession.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.

Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

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.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

New York traffic can drive you crazy.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

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

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

The divine is in all things.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

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.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.

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.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.