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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 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

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Individuality, Identity

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

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

It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

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 think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Relationships

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.
—Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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 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: Xenophobia, Racism, Excellence, Dreams

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

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Relationships

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

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

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Prophecy, Vision

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

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

I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Fear, Failure

There’s no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Success

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Opportunity

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn—which is what life is all about.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Fear

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

You get from the world what you give to the world.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Give

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Growth

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

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

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

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace — a connection to what matters.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Energy, Passion

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

What we’re all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Identity, Individuality

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Choice

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

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

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
—Oprah Winfrey

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

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Feel, Stress, Cause, Create

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

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

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