Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.”

— Oprah Winfrey

452. “Your life isn’t about a big break. It’s about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.”

— Oprah Winfrey

453. “We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can’t give what you don’t have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you’re running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

454. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

455. “Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

456. “I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.”

— Oprah Winfrey

457. “My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

— Oprah Winfrey

458. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

459. “When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you’re getting paid.”

— Oprah Winfrey

460. “I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

461. “The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that’s when it works.”

— Oprah Winfrey

462. “Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we’re moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.”

— Oprah Winfrey

463. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.”

— Oprah Winfrey

464. “The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you will die, you must live now. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands – you are the single biggest influence in your life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

465. “Here’s what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.”

— Oprah Winfrey

466. “All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.”

— Oprah Winfrey

467. “Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.”

— Oprah Winfrey

468. “I’ve often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey

469. “You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.”

— Oprah Winfrey

470. “Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!”

— Oprah Winfrey

471. “I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.”

— Oprah Winfrey

472. “We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

473. “The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.”

— Oprah Winfrey

474. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘Thank you,’ it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart.”

— Oprah Winfrey

475. “If I knew then what I know now, I would never have wasted even a single minute doubting my path.”

— Oprah Winfrey

476. “If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.”

— Oprah Winfrey

477. “Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.”

— Oprah Winfrey

478. “When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?”

— Oprah Winfrey

479. “To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.”

— Oprah Winfrey

480. “There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

481. “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

482. “Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

483. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

484. “So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.”

— Oprah Winfrey

485. “No matter what challenge you may be facing, you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you’re the one controlling the brush. If I had known this at 21, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache and self-doubt. It would have been a revelation to understand that we are all the artists of our own lives – and that we can use as many colors and brushstrokes as we like.”

— Oprah Winfrey

486. “You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities.”

— Oprah Winfrey

487. “This season don’t get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

488. “The experiences in the first years of life are disproportionately powerful in shaping how your brain organizes.”

— Oprah Winfrey

489. “It’s been found that if you wake up every morning and practice saying three things you are grateful for – they have to be new each day – by doing this for twenty-one days, even people who were testing as the low-level pessimist on average were now testing as low-level optimist.”

— Oprah Winfrey

490. “Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by. Instead of belittling, uplift. Instead of demolishing, rebuild. Instead of misleading, light the way so that all of us can stand on higher ground.”

— Oprah Winfrey

491. “I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it’s that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.”

— Oprah Winfrey

492. “Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to effect change in your life – this I know.”

— Oprah Winfrey

493. “Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

495. “I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

496. “What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.”

— Oprah Winfrey

497. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.”

— Oprah Winfrey

498. “What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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499. “Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life’s gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.”

— Oprah Winfrey

500. “Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.”

— Oprah Winfrey