Top 55 Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn’t necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

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.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

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.

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

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.

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.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

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.

When you’re the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you’re the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

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.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

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.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Don’t let people talk you into what they think is you.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.

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

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

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

You CAN have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.

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

Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

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

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

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

You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

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

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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.

You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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