35 quotes by Oprah Winfrey

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”— Oprah Winfrey

“When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”— Oprah Winfrey

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”— Oprah Winfrey

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”— Oprah Winfrey

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”— Oprah Winfrey

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”— Oprah Winfrey

“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.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”— Oprah Winfrey

“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.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The more you praise and celebrate you life, the more there is in life to praise and celebrate.”— Oprah Winfrey

“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”— Oprah Winfrey

“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”— Oprah Winfrey

“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”— Oprah Winfrey

“What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.”— Oprah Winfrey

“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.”— Oprah Winfrey

“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.”— Oprah Winfrey

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”— Oprah Winfrey