Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

453. “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

454. “What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.”

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

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456. “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.”

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

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

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459. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

461. “Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!”

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462. “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

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

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

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465. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

468. “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

469. “But what happens when you work hard at something unfulfilling? It drains your spirit. It robs you of your life force. You end up depleted, depressed and angry.”

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

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471. “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.”

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472. “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.”

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473. “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

474. “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

475. “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

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

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477. “What follows ‘I am’ is what we’re inviting into our life. Meaning when you use phrases like, “I am exhausted,” or, “I am overwhelmed,” you are inviting exactly that kind of energy into your life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

478. “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

479. “When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that’s all there was.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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482. “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

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

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484. “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.”

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

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486. “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

487. “If you’re hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you’re in pain, help somebody else’s pain.”

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488. “My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.”

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489. “If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.”

— Oprah Winfrey

490. “Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.”

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

— Oprah Winfrey

492. “What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction.”

— Oprah Winfrey

493. “I’m not even kind of a lesbian.”

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494. “There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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496. “I’ve always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.”

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497. “Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.”

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498. “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.”

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499. “I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.”

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500. “I always knew I’d be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.”

— Oprah Winfrey