Oprah Winfrey Quotes

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

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.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

The divine is in all things.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

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.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. 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. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

You teach people how to treat you.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

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.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.