Oprah Winfrey Quotes

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Oprah Winfrey

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : January 29, 1954

You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

Oprah Winfrey

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

Oprah Winfrey

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

Oprah Winfrey

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

Oprah Winfrey

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

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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.

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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

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I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

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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

Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

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

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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

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To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

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