Top 100 Oprah Winfrey Quotes
#2. I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
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#3. I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
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#4. My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.
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#5. Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.
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#6. We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore
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#8. These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
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#9. 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.
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#10. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.
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#11. 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.
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#12. When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion
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#13. What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
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#14. Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.
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#15. To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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#16. Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning - set your intention every day.
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#17. God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
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#18. I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
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#19. When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!
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#21. When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
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#22. It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.
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#24. When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
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#25. Whatever you fear most has no power
it is your fear that has the power
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#26. We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.
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#27. I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.
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#29. only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren't so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself - because this moment is about to be over.
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#30. Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
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#31. Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
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#32. No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
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#33. To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.
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#34. I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.
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#35. What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
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#36. Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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#37. Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.
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#39. You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
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#40. What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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#41. Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
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#42. After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.
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#43. If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .
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#44. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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#45. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
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#46. No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
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#48. I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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#49. Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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#50. 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?
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#51. Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.
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#56. You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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#57. The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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#58. There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
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#60. I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
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#62. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.
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#63. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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#64. Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully
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#65. Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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#66. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
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#67. 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.
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#69. All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.
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#70. The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.
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#72. I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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#73. I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
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#74. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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#75. I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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#76. If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
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#77. When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!
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#78. Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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#79. Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
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#82. If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!
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#83. You can only be as happy as your saddest child.
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#84. It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.
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#86. Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
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#88. Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
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#89. Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
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#90. I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
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#92. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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#94. What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.
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#95. anyone will ride in a limo but a true friend will ride the bus when the limo breaks down
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#96. Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.
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#97. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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#98. Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
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#99. I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are move forward.
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#100. When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.
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