Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Growth

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

All these years I’ve been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Individuality, Fame, Identity

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
—Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Fear

Partake of some of life’s sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance—and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

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

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

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Giving, Gratitude

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit’s way of whispering, I’m in flux. I can’t decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Mothers, Mother, Identity, Individuality, Motherhood

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Intuition, Choice

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I’m not going to let it bother me. No. I’m on my way to work and I decided it doesn’t matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I’m not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I’m going to let them.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Gratitude, Giving

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Energy, Feelings, Passion

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

I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Belief, Responsibility, Individuality

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

What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Gratitude, Giving

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

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

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

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

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