Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Your gut is your inner compass.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

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

The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

Intent and service-that is my motto.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

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?

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

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.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

You only have power in your energy field ... so the only way to live the life you want is in your energy field ... and your greatest power is love.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

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

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.

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

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

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Honour the difficult.

All you need to do is know who you are.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.