Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.

~ Oprah Winfrey

One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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 to empower themselves.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

~ Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

~ Oprah Winfrey

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

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

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

~ Oprah Winfrey