Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey- "You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed."


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

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

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Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.

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

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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Always continue the climb.

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You CAN have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.

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What I know for sure is that if you want to have success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow.

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You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.

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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

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

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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

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

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

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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.

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

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I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If I lost control of the business, I’d lose myself – or at least the ability to be myself.

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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

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For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.

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I always knew I was destined for greatness.

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I always knew I’d be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

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I don’t believe in coincidences.

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

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Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

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If I lost control of the business, I’d lose myself – or at least the ability to be myself.

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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

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I always knew I’d be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

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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.

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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning…set your intention every day…if you don’t have five minutes, you don’t deserve to have the life of your dreams.

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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.

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It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

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Whatever you fear most has no power. It is your fear that has the power.

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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.

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

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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.

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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

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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.

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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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I came off the air and said to myself, “this is what I should be doing. It’s like breathing.”

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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.

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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. The right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it.

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I don’t care about being bigger, because I’m already bigger than I ever expected to be.

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

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My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I’m already doing in a more forceful way?

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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

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To whom much is given, much is expected.

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When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.

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It’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.

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Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life’s gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.

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Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

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

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I said I knew how to edit when I didn’t. I said I knew how to report on stories. When I went to my first city council meeting, I wasn’t quite sure of what to do, but I told the news director that I did.

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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And, I truly believe, that the reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

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Pay attention to your feelings. The path to discovering why you are here is through your feelings.

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You can be pursuing a profession because your parents say it’s the best thing. You can be pursuing a profession because you think you will make a lot of money. You can be pursuing a profession because you think you are going to get a lot of attention. None of that will do you any good if you are not being honest with yourself.

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How can I be of service? How can I use television as a service?

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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.

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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

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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.

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I was called to talk, to use my voice in some way.

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

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I don’t think of myself as a businesswoman.

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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.

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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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