Oprah Winfrey
Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.Collection: Greatness
Great communication begins with connection.Collection: Communication
It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.Collection: Inspiring
What least makes a mother is biology.Collection: Mother
If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.Collection: Believe
It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.Collection: Reality
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.Collection: Children
The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.Collection: Tiny
If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.Collection: Inspirational
I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.Collection: Asking Why
All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answerCollection: Love
In the end, all you have is your reputation.Collection: Reputation
Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.Collection: Successful
Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.Collection: Answers
There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.Collection: Racism
If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.Collection: Break Up
People just want to know that they matter.Collection: Inspiring
If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?Collection: Love
I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.Collection: Pain
Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.Collection: Giving
Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.Collection: Excellence
Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.Collection: Personality
Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.Collection: Memories
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.Collection: Inspiring
Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.Collection: Powerful
Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.Collection: Dream
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.Collection: Grateful
Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.Collection: Mistake
The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.Collection: Powerful
I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.Collection: Inspirational
All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.Collection: Energy
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.Collection: Love
Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.Collection: Inspirational
Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.Collection: Children
Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.Collection: Library
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.Collection: Thinking
Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.Collection: Relationship
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.Collection: Life
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.Collection: Inspirational
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.Collection: Self Esteem
What you put out is already on its way back to you.Collection: Inspiring
I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."Collection: Kids
There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice.Collection: Tired
After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.Collection: Teacher
Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.Collection: Taught
I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.Collection: Attitude
I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Two
Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.Collection: Jobs