Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

My response is that I love the church.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.

The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Don't live your life to please other people.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

‎Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing

Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

What you do today creates every tomorrow.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.