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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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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

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, Self-respect

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

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Wisdom, Adversity

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

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Fear, Failure

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

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

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream—and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Risk, Success

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people o empower themselves.
—Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
—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

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

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Book, Books

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

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

I’m black; I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it is a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say “This is who I am.”
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Being True to Yourself

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

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Energy, Passion

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

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

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Relationships

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

You can have it all. Just not all at once.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Fun

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Passion, Energy

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