Top 100 Winfrey's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.
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#9. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
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#10. I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.
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#11. There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
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#12. It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.
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#13. The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us
the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.
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#14. If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
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#15. Your soul tells you when it's time to move on.
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#16. These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
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#17. Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It's what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
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#18. 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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#19. 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.
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#20. You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.
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#21. I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
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#23. 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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#24. When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!
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#25. 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.
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#26. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
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#27. 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
#28. It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.
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#29. I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
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#30. That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.
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#31. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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#32. There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
Andrew Breitbart
#33. 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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#34. 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
#35. To be fully human is ... to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
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#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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#39. Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
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#40. 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
#41. Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
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#42. I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
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#43. I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
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#44. What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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
#47. Lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.
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#48. It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
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#49. All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.
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#50. Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
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#51. 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.
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#52. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
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#53. Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
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#54. 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
#55. Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
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#56. Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
#61. 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
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#62. You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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#63. Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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#64. If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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#65. That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.
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#66. I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.
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#67. 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
#68. Here's how I see your weight - it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.
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#69. Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
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#70. 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
#71. Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it
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#72. Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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#73. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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#74. I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.
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#75. Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.
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#76. 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?
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#77. I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.
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#78. 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.
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#79. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
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#80. I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.
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#81. I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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#82. The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
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#83. I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna Ciccone
#84. Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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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#87. Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
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#88. 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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#89. It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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#90. Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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#91. It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.
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#92. It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you
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#93. You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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#94. When your life is on course with it's purpose, you are your most powerful.
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#95. I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
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#96. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.
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#97. 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.
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#98. What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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#99. If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.
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#100. Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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