Oprah Winfrey Quotes

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

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

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

Everyone is the keeper of a dream

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

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.

The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

You are awareness disguised as a human being.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

Intent and service-that is my motto.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

New York traffic can drive you crazy.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

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?

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

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?

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

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.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

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.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.