Oprah Winfrey
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.Collection: Jobs
Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.Collection: Making Changes
The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.Collection: Gratitude
What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?Collection: World
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.Collection: Today
You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.Collection: Energy
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.Collection: Inspirational
What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.Collection: Happened
All stress comes from resisting what is.Collection: Stress
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.Collection: Life
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.Collection: Running
The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.Collection: Love
Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.Collection: Holiday
Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.Collection: Thinking
If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.Collection: Hate
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passionCollection: Inspirational
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.Collection: Sweet
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.Collection: Sad
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.Collection: Morning
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.Collection: Inspirational
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gainCollection: Important
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Dream
When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.Collection: World
Life is better when you share it.Collection: Life Is
You are worthy because you were born.Collection: Born
I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.Collection: Attitude
All pain is the same.Collection: Pain
You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.Collection: Views
The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.Collection: Pathways
I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.Collection: Years
I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.Collection: Believe
The only way to end war is communication between people.Collection: War
When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.Collection: Passionate
Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."Collection: Jobs
What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.Collection: Real
So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.Collection: Letting Go
One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.Collection: Charity
I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.Collection: Live In The Moment
Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.Collection: Fullness Of Life
You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourselfCollection: Worthwhile
I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.Collection: Australia
Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.Collection: Bits
Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.Collection: Outcomes
You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.Collection: Reality
I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.Collection: Giving Up
There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.Collection: Boys
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.Collection: God
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.Collection: Trying