Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago.
- Net Worth: $3.2 Billion
- Age: 64
- Born: January 29, 1954
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source of Wealth: Professional Talk Show Host/Actress
- Last Updated: 2019
Here are 76 Oprah Winfrey Quotes On Success, Life, Truth, Decisions and Love You Should Read
1. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey
2. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey
3. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey
4. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
5. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be. Oprah Winfrey
6. 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
7. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. Oprah Winfrey
8. If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit. Oprah Winfrey
9. My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. Oprah Winfrey
10. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
11. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that. Oprah Winfrey
12. What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. Oprah Winfrey
13. I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. Oprah Winfrey
14. To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it. Oprah Winfrey
15. I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. Oprah Winfrey
16. My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit. Oprah Winfrey
17. That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one. Oprah Winfrey
18. I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career. Oprah Winfrey
19. When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest. Oprah Winfrey
20. You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once. Oprah Winfrey
21. I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. Oprah Winfrey
22. It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here. Oprah Winfrey
23. 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
24. My therapy has come from paying attention to my life. Oprah Winfrey
25. As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. Oprah Winfrey
26. I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about. Oprah Winfrey
27. I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier. Oprah Winfrey
28. 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
29. I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail. Oprah Winfrey
30. I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. Oprah Winfrey
31. I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me. Oprah Winfrey
32. Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line. Oprah Winfrey
33. Don't let people talk you into what they think is you. Oprah Winfrey
34. The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. Oprah Winfrey
35. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. Oprah Winfrey
36. You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
37. Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth. Oprah Winfrey
38. My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. Oprah Winfrey
39. I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. Oprah Winfrey
40. I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing. Oprah Winfrey
41. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes. Oprah Winfrey
42. You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through. Oprah Winfrey
43. What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. Oprah Winfrey
44. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Oprah Winfrey
45. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey
46. Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. Oprah Winfrey
47. If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good. Oprah Winfrey
48. Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. Oprah Winfrey
49. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey
50. I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
51. 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 never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey
52. You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean. Oprah Winfrey
53. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
54. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey
55. 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
56. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey
57. With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health. Oprah Winfrey
58. The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey
59. No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort. Oprah Winfrey
60. When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table. Oprah Winfrey
61. You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others. Oprah Winfrey
62. 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
63. It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control. Oprah Winfrey
64. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. Oprah Winfrey
65. Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives. Oprah Winfrey
66. I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. Oprah Winfrey
67. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
68. What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. Oprah Winfrey
69. When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are. Oprah Winfrey
70. I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage. Oprah Winfrey
71. 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
72. Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more. Oprah Winfrey
73. For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. Oprah Winfrey
74. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms. Oprah Winfrey
75. Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them. Oprah Winfrey
76. Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go. Oprah Winfrey
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