Best 709 quotes of Oprah Winfrey on MyQuotes

I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

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

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?

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

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

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.

I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

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

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.

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

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 don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. I feel like he did that intentionally for us, like McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning because he's pale and he would probably wanna be tanned.

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.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

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.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.

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

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

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

If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered

If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

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

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

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