Welcome to our collection of quotes (with shareable picture quotes) by Oprah Winfrey. We hope you enjoy pondering them and that you will share them widely.
Wikipedia Summary for Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media,” she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest Black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company.
By the mid-1990s, Winfrey had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, mindfulness, and spirituality. Though she has been criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and having an emotion-centered approach, she has also been praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. Winfrey had also emerged as a political force in the 2008 presidential race, with her endorsement of Barack Obama estimated to have been worth about one million votes during the 2008 Democratic primaries. In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and received honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard. In 2008, she formed her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
Credited with creating a more intimate, confessional form of media communication, Winfrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue. In 1994, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Winfrey has won many accolades throughout her career which includes 18 Daytime Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Chairman's Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, a Tony Award, a Peabody Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, awarded by the Academy Awards and two additional Academy Award nominations. Winfey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning set your intention every day.
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
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.
Don't settle for a relationship that prevents you from being yourself.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
You have to choose love. In the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.
It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.
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It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. ".
If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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.
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love, who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.
Use your life to serve the world, and you will find that it also serves you.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.
The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.
I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.
Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, Oh, I only need four hours. Now I need exactly 5 1 2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?
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 will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
The struggle of my life created empathy -- I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
I love how they got in the RV and did it for their dog. (The Gayle King Show, May 2010).
You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.
That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself -- being fully present and in the moment.
If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.
People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.
My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else -- it's just that more people know your name.
What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.
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.
We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.
I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.
I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.
I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.
I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
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.
I thing that god is always listening to all my prayers.and i have so many dreams in my life.thats why I'm always praying that's someday I'm going to achieve all my dreams.
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.
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?
Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.
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God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender.
When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow.
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.
I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.
These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
Improving your life doesn't have to be about changing everything -- it's about making changes that count.
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.
I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.
Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.
Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.