Oprah Winfrey Quotes

“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

“Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.”

“Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.”

“The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

“Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed”

“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.”

“I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.”

“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.”

“People believe marriage will make us better.”

“Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.”

“I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!”

“When people show you who they are ... believe them!”

“Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.”

“There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.”

“Honour the difficult.”

“I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.”

“The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.”

“Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.”

“When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.”

“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.”

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”

“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”