Oprah Winfrey Quotes

People just want to know that they matter.

Never give up your power to another person.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

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

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

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.

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

What least makes a mother is biology.

I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

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.

What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

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.

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

The next road is always ahead.

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.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

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.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

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

All pain is the same.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

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.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

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

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.