Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.

Life is better when you share it.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

Live from the heart of yourself

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

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

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.