Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Most popular Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey
Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
— Oprah Winfrey Oprah: Up Close and Down Home

failure greatness

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
— Oprah Winfrey

opportunity luck preparation

You don't win by meeting any kind of negativity head-on. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
You don't win by meeting any kind of negativity head-on.
— Oprah Winfrey Interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Feb 2018

conflict dealing with people

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
— Oprah Winfrey O: The Oprah Magazine

new year

I don't believe in luck.  Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
I don't believe in luck.  Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
— Oprah Winfrey

luck

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
— Oprah Winfrey

friendship inspirational

The essential question is not, 'How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' - Oprah Winfrey quote.
The essential question is not, 'How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?'
— Oprah Winfrey

time management

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.  Don't get stuck on past mistakes. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.  Don't get stuck on past mistakes.
— Oprah Winfrey

second chances

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
— Oprah Winfrey Ladies’ Home Journal

running

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.
— Oprah Winfrey

vision

My gift to myself and my friends is my encouragement that they, too, are their own best selves. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
My gift to myself and my friends is my encouragement that they, too, are their own best selves.
— Oprah Winfrey
Gratitude is the foundation of happiness.  So if you want to start being happy, get grateful first. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Gratitude is the foundation of happiness.  So if you want to start being happy, get grateful first.

happiness gratitude

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
— Oprah Winfrey

buddhist mindfulness

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.  And that's how I operate my life. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.  And that's how I operate my life.
— Oprah Winfrey Oprah, In Her Words: Our American Princess

racism excellence

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
— Oprah Winfrey

happiness contentment

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 quote.
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

friendship

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
— Oprah Winfrey A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

empathy

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
— Oprah Winfrey Oprah, in Her Words

books

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me.  Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me.  Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.
— Oprah Winfrey Oprah: Up Close and Down Home

happiness

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 quote.
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 O: The Oprah Magazine

happiness