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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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: Energy, Passion

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

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Letting Go, How to Live

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, Responsibility, Belief, Individuality

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

Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Dreams

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

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

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: Cause, Stress, Feel, Create

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: Books, Book

When I look at the future, it’s so bright, it burns my eyes.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Tomorrow, Moving on, The Future

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

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

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: Passion, Energy

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Moving on

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

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who ever mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Fear

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: Individuality, Identity

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’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.
—Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Worry

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

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

We are each responsible for our own life — no other person is or even can be.
—Oprah Winfrey

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: Success, Risk

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