Oprah Winfrey
American media executive, talk show host and philanthropist, born 1954
69 quotes.
Quotes by Oprah Winfrey
- Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
- Surround yourself with people only who are going to take you higher.
- 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.
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your 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.
- The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
- Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
- We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
- What I know for sure is you become what you believe.
- What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
- What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life.
- What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction.
- Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
- Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
- When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.
- When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
- When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
- With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
- You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
- 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.
- You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
- You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.