Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.

Reading gave me hope.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

The only way to end war is communication between people.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

People believe marriage will make us better.

When you do your best, people notice.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

Honour the difficult.

I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.