Top 100 Winfrey Quotes
#1. Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.
Craig Ferguson
#2. Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.
Eckhart Tolle
#4. Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.
Eli Broad
#5. I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.
Prabal Gurung
#6. I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.
Octavia Spencer
#7. I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview
Kevin Sinnott
#8. Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.
Tom Hanks
#9. In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
Aberjhani
#10. I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.
Suze Orman
#11. I have read more about Oprah Winfrey's ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren't spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey's ass.
Caitlin Moran
#12. Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
Joan Rivers
#13. As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
Chris Bohjalian
#14. My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.
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#15. I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.
Suze Orman
#16. 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.
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#17. Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.
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#18. Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
Michael Eric Dyson
#19. There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
Andrew Breitbart
#20. Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,
like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality of
our society. Sadly, it's an environment where blood lines no longer
hold.
Oche Otorkpa
#21. We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
David Oyelowo
#22. When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!
Iyanla Vanzant
#23. I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal.
Gwendoline Christie
#24. I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"
Oleta Adams
#25. I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#26. People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.
Conan O'Brien
#27. I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
A. Whitney Brown
#28. I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.
Jenni Rivera
#29. So many of my friends tell me they're not religious. I'm like, Of course you're religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don't you?
Richard Rodriguez
#30. I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.
Suze Orman
#31. I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
Robert B. Parker
#32. No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets ... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.
Gayle King
#33. This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people.
Gary Zukav
#34. If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
Chip Kidd
#36. Women will do anything Oprah Winfrey says, and that is why we can't have women voting.
Artie Lange
#37. I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna Ciccone
#38. Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
Lee Siegel
#39. 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.'
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#40. By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.
Tina Fey
#41. Oprah Winfrey shares, "Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility." This affirmation is at the core of our #GirlBizMind series, as it is from possibility and belief that all real world achievement flows.
Helga Klopcic
#42. In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.
Lee Siegel
#43. Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.
Lori Wilde
#44. Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer
#45. I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
Uzo Aduba
#46. I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
Carrie Fisher
#47. I got the sneaky feeling that I was present at something at which I would rather not be present. It made me think of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Of Oprah Winfrey.
Herman Koch
#48. There's a behind-the-scenes show that Oprah is doing that follows the final season of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I find behind-the-scenes stuff fascinating. Like, whenever I watch a DVD, I always watch the special features and listen to the commentary first, before I even watch the movie.
Brendan Robinson
#49. Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'
Iyanla Vanzant
#50. These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.
George Lois
#51. Oprah Winfrey just announced that she's planning to attend Barack Obama's inauguration. Oprah says she's very excited to see Obama become the second-most powerful person in the world.
Conan O'Brien
#52. I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too ... I have an idea or two.
Ross Mathews
#53. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
-Oprah Winfrey-
David DeBacco
#54. I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.
Nick Cave
#55. I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
Sara Blakely
#56. I answered her spiritually. And that is where Oprah [Winfrey]comes from. She comes from a place of the truth within her. And I think that's why we clicked. And I think that's why we still continue to click.
Suze Orman
#57. Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.
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#58. I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.
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#59. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
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#60. The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
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#61. What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
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#63. 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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#64. You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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#65. I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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#66. When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.
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#67. My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
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#69. I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.
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#70. All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer
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#71. I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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#72. 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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#73. We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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#74. A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here
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#77. If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
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#79. Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
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#80. You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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#81. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.
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#82. I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.
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#83. Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves
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#84. Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
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#85. 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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#86. Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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#87. Life is full of many unpredictable changes ... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities ... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
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#88. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
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#89. Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.
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#91. When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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#92. Living your best life is your most important journey in life.
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#93. 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).
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#94. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
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#95. So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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#96. Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.
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#97. Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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#98. We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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#99. Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.
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#100. What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.
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