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.
Your life is big. Keep reaching.
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’ve always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
Everybody looks at their poop.
No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money’s pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I’m single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.
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.
Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it’s accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.
It’s all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
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.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who’ll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.