Oprah Winfrey
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.Collection: Good
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.Collection: Wisdom
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.Collection: New
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.Collection: Thanksgiving
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.Collection: Dreams
Every day, you're only as good as your last show.Collection: Good
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.Collection: Future
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.Collection: Success
Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.Collection: Society
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Fear
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.Collection: Success
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.Collection: Birthday
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.Collection: Time
You alone are enough.Collection: Alone
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.Collection: Women
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.Collection: Experience
Turn your wounds into wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.Collection: Strength
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.Collection: Freedom
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.Collection: Power
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.Collection: Best
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.Collection: Courage
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.Collection: Health
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.Collection: Failure
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.Collection: Fear
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Collection: Friendship
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.Collection: Best
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.Collection: Space
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Collection: Best
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.Collection: Failure
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.Collection: Wisdom
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.Collection: Failure
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.Collection: God
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Failure
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.Collection: Strength
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.Collection: Women
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.Collection: Space
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.Collection: Business
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.