Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

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.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

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.

Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.

I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

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.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

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.

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

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.

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.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

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.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.