Oprah Winfrey Quotes

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

“Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.”

“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”

“Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.”

“One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.”

“When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?”

“All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.”

“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.”

“Always listen to your inner voice.”

“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.”

“I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.”

“Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.”

“When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.”

“So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.”

“I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.”

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.”

“Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.”

“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”

“Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.”

“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”

“Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.”

“The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.”

“Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.”

“You have the RIGHT to change your mind”

“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.”