Best quotes by Oprah Winfrey

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

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.

What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

To love yourself is a never-ending journey.

What you put out is already on its way back to you.

You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.

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.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

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

We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

What I know for sure: 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.

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.

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

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

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.

I thing that god is always listening to all my prayers.and i have so many dreams in my life.thats why I`m always praying that`s someday I`m going to achieve all my dreams.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

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.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.