Best quotes by Oprah Winfrey

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.

I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

I decided to be the best and the smartest.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.

Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. That's not just my theory or point of view, it's physics. Life is an energy of giving and receiving... Those that are greedy, hit a road block where they are alone. Give more than you receive and be grateful for those around you.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

There are no mistakes in life!

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

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.

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

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." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.

Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.

I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?

I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.

"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.

I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.