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Inspirational Quotes by Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

Inspirational Quotations by Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) is an American media personality and philanthropist. She is one of the richest and most influential women in the United States.

Born into poverty, Winfrey ran away from home at age 13 after being subjected to domestic abuse. At 14, she had a son who was born prematurely and died shortly after birth. Winfrey then made education her top priority, worked as a radio reporter while in high school, and studied broadcasting at Tennessee State University.

At age 22, Winfrey co-anchored the evening news in Baltimore. Two years later, she started co-hosting a talk show called People Are Talking. In 1983, she moved to Chicago to host a 30-minute morning talk show called AM Chicago which was later renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show after her ratings skyrocketed. In 1986, her TV show became nationally syndicated and was broadcast in 138 cities. It became the most popular daytime talk show of all time and ended in 2011. In 1996, Winfrey started her televised book club; each book she selected for her club sold more than 500,000 copies.

Besides being a media mogul, Winfrey is also a prominent philanthropist and has donated to various educational and racial causes. She is the primary benefactor of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

Winfrey publishes O, The Oprah Magazine and has co-authored five books. Her memoir, The Life You Want, was due in 2017.

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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Giving, Gratitude

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Self-respect

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into a complete person you were intended to be.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Growth

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Fear, Failure

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Encouragement, Relationships, Support, Friends and Friendship, Purpose

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Potential, Responsibility, Opportunity, Doing Your Best, Choice, Excellence

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
—Oprah Winfrey

I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Growth

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.
—Oprah Winfrey

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
—Oprah Winfrey

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
—Oprah Winfrey

You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love—who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
—Oprah Winfrey

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Fear

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.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Doing

Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Past, The Present, The Past

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become…Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Letting Go

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Goals, Success

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Fear

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
—Oprah Winfrey

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
—Oprah Winfrey

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Vision

I believe that every single event in life happens as an opportunity to choose love over fear.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice, Living

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Integrity, Choice

What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
—Oprah Winfrey

I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Success

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Success

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Giving, Gratitude, Celebration, Praise

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you’re ready.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Opportunity

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
—Oprah Winfrey

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Opportunity

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Racism, Dreams, Excellence, Xenophobia

What goes intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
—Oprah Winfrey

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
—Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: “What is my truest intention?” Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it’s right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams, Possibilities

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Luck, Preparation, Success, One liners

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
—Oprah Winfrey

For every one of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Success, Cooperation

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