Oprah Winfrey
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.Collection: Inspirational
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Dream
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.Collection: Success
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.Collection: Real
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.Collection: Spiritual
Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."Collection: Inspirational
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.Collection: Happiness
The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.Collection: Opportunity
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.Collection: Mother
Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.Collection: Powerful
I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.Collection: Space
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.Collection: Inspirational
Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.Collection: Morning
I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.Collection: Faith
We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!Collection: Mother
Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.Collection: Gratitude
I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.Collection: Prayer
Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.Collection: Heart
My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.Collection: Mother
I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.Collection: Believe
One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.Collection: Voice
I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.Collection: Responsibility
The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.Collection: Years
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." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.Collection: Believe
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.Collection: Stories
My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.Collection: Names
Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Positive
You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”Collection: Expression
Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.Collection: Believe
When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.Collection: Morning
I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.Collection: Fruit
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.Collection: Funny Inspirational
Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?Collection: Self
I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. I feel like he did that intentionally for us, like McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning because he's pale and he would probably wanna be tanned.Collection: Tanning
What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.Collection: Views
The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.Collection: Moving
Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.Collection: Success
Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.Collection: Powerful
Reading gave me hope.Collection: Reading
Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?Collection: Giving
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.Collection: Powerful
I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.Collection: Black
You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.Collection: Dream
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.Collection: Letting Go
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.Collection: Inspirational
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."Collection: Forgiveness
Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.Collection: Trust