Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You become what you believe.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

To love yourself is a never-ending journey.

Live from the heart of yourself

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Living your best life is your most important journey in life.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

Everybody's life matters.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!

I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered