The Best Oprah Winfrey quotes

We are each responsible for our own life–no other person can be. — Oprah Winfrey

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode. — Oprah Winfrey

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. — Oprah Winfrey

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be. — Oprah Winfrey

Life is about becoming more of who you really are. — Oprah Winfrey

Life is better when you share it. — Oprah Winfrey

Everybody’s life matters. — Oprah Winfrey

Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there — Oprah Winfrey

You are the single biggest influence in your life. — Oprah Winfrey

There are no mistakes in life! — Oprah Winfrey

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe. — Oprah Winfrey

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life! — Oprah Winfrey

Don’t live your life to please other people. — Oprah Winfrey

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

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. — Oprah Winfrey

Your life is big. Keep reaching. — Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you fear most has no power–it is your fear that has the power. — Oprah Winfrey

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power. — Oprah Winfrey

Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love. — Oprah Winfrey

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe. — Oprah Winfrey

People have power to make a difference in their lives. — Oprah Winfrey

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. — 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’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. — Oprah Winfrey

You are the author of your own life…Don’t let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well. — Oprah Winfrey

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion — Oprah Winfrey

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that’s greater than yourself means anything is possible. — Oprah Winfrey

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. — Oprah Winfrey

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that’s greater than other people and greater than myself. — Oprah Winfrey

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want. — Oprah Winfrey

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

People believe marriage will make us better. — Oprah Winfrey

Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it. — Oprah Winfrey

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! — Oprah Winfrey

I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. — Oprah Winfrey

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don’t feel worthy once they have them. — Oprah Winfrey

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

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

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort. — Oprah Winfrey

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

I don’t believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. — Oprah Winfrey

I belIeve that uncertaInty Is rally my spIrIt’s way of whIsperIng, I’m In flux. I can’t decIde for you. somethIng Is off–balance here. — Oprah Winfrey

We’re all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away. — Oprah Winfrey

If you don’t give something back when you get, you don’t keep. — Oprah Winfrey

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

You get from the world what you give to the world. — Oprah Winfrey

Life isn’t just about what you can have; it’s about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be? — Oprah Winfrey

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that. — Oprah Winfrey

That’s really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices. — Oprah Winfrey

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others. — Oprah Winfrey

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. — Oprah Winfrey

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving! — Oprah Winfrey

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. — Oprah Winfrey

These French–style caramels are handmade in California. It’s always hard to give them away! — Oprah Winfrey

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure. — Oprah Winfrey

Pray as if it’s up to God, work as if it’s up to you. — Oprah Winfrey

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. — Oprah Winfrey

Dream big–dream very big. Work hard–work very hard. And after you’ve done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender. — Oprah Winfrey

I feel my greatest work is yet to come. — Oprah Winfrey

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn’t work behind and step boldly into a brand new future. — Oprah Winfrey

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

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves. — Oprah Winfrey

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant–and the success will naturally follow. — Oprah Winfrey

When you’re passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you. — Oprah Winfrey

The big secret in life is that There is no big secret. whatever your goal, you can get There if you’re willing to work. — Oprah Winfrey

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants–if she’s willing to do the hard work it takes to get it. — Oprah Winfrey

Always continue the climb. it is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. — Oprah Winfrey

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. — Oprah Winfrey

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you. — Oprah Winfrey

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. — Oprah Winfrey

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it. — Oprah Winfrey

God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

I live inside God’s dream for me. I don’t try to tell God what I’m supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

Self–esteem means knowing you are the dream. — Oprah Winfrey

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness. — Oprah Winfrey

Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. — Oprah Winfrey

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they’ll take me. — Oprah Winfrey

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were. — Oprah Winfrey

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true. — Oprah Winfrey

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance. — Oprah Winfrey

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. — Oprah Winfrey

How you spend your time defines who you are. — 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

I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time. — Oprah Winfrey

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. — Oprah Winfrey

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you. — Oprah Winfrey

All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it. — Oprah Winfrey

This is a moment in time that allows us to see This societal corruption. it’s like a scourge on humanity. — Oprah Winfrey

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

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there’s something fantastic on the other side. — Oprah Winfrey

Life whispers to you all the time…from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience. — Oprah Winfrey

It’s time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you. — Oprah Winfrey

I’ve had a lot of time to reflect what this moment means to us as a family and a community. — Oprah Winfrey

You have to choose love … in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love. — Oprah Winfrey

Personally, I think if a women hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s 24, she may be lucky. — Oprah Winfrey

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, ‘You are ‘the voice.” You are the voice, that was my name for you. — Oprah Winfrey

There is no doing in the world without being first. — Oprah Winfrey

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

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

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here. — Oprah Winfrey

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew. — Oprah Winfrey

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity. — Oprah Winfrey

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart. — Oprah Winfrey

Everything in your world is created by what you think. — Oprah Winfrey

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey

I don’t think there’s anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go. — Oprah Winfrey

You have to be responsible for the energy you’re putting out into the world. — Oprah Winfrey

I’ve often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world. — Oprah Winfrey

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. — Oprah Winfrey

Self–esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey

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

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. — Oprah Winfrey

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth. — Oprah Winfrey