Best 709 quotes of Oprah Winfrey on MyQuotes

A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

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

All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

All you need to do is know who you are.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Always listen to your inner voice.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

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

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

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.

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

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

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.

"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.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

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

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

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.

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

Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

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.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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

Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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

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.

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.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.