Best quotes by Oprah Winfrey

Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

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

Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways

My response is that I love the church.

Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

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

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.

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

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.

I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

You are awareness disguised as a human being.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

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

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Everybody looks at their poop.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

The best of times is now.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

Everybody's life matters.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!

You teach people how to treat you.

I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.

Leadership is about empathy.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.