Oprah Winfrey Quotes

“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.”

“When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.”

“You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.”

“If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.”

“Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.”

“When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.”

“Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.”

“The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.”

“You alone are enough.”

“After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.”

“This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."”

“Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.”

“If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”

“Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.”

“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.”

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

“If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.”

“Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.”

“I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.”

“In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.”

“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."”