Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.”

— Oprah Winfrey

202. “The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow...”

— Oprah Winfrey

203. “I think mentors are important and I don’t think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don’t know it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

204. “People just want to know that they matter.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

206. “Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

207. “If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it’s just life’s way of saying it’s time to change course.”

— Oprah Winfrey

208. “You are responsible for your life. It doesn’t matter what your Mama did. It doesn’t matter what your Daddy didn’t do. You are responsible for your life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

209. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

210. “Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.”

— Oprah Winfrey

211. “Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”

— Oprah Winfrey

212. “No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.”

— Oprah Winfrey

213. “I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don’t do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It’s like cause and effect.”

— Oprah Winfrey

214. “We’re all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.”

— Oprah Winfrey

215. “Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.”

— Oprah Winfrey

216. “Your life is a reflection of how you think.”

— Oprah Winfrey

217. “All stress comes from resisting what is.”

— Oprah Winfrey

218. “When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.”

— Oprah Winfrey

219. “Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.”

— Oprah Winfrey

220. “Everything in your world is created by what you think.”

— Oprah Winfrey

221. “You are the single biggest influence in your life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

222. “If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.”

— Oprah Winfrey

223. “Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

224. “I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

225. “If it’s not hard, you’re not dreaming big enough!”

— Oprah Winfrey

226. “I’m finally ready to own my own power, to say, “This is who I am.” If you like it, you like it. And if you don’t like it, you don’t. So watch out; I’m gonna fly.”

— Oprah Winfrey

227. “Reading gave me hope.”

— Oprah Winfrey

228. “It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

229. “Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.”

— Oprah Winfrey

230. “Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

231. “If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

232. “I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one’s own destiny.”

— Oprah Winfrey

233. “No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

234. “Whenever you can’t think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, ‘I’m still here.’ Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!”

— Oprah Winfrey

235. “What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can’t avoid the daily tremors. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey

236. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

237. “Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.”

— Oprah Winfrey

238. “The next road is always ahead.”

— Oprah Winfrey

239. “The roles we play in each other’s lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us – the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.”

— Oprah Winfrey

240. “When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.”

— Oprah Winfrey

241. “Gossip... reflects the insecurity of those who initiate it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

242. “Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.”

— Oprah Winfrey

243. “There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

244. “Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it’s probably right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

245. “There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.”

— Oprah Winfrey

246. “Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

247. “Your life is big. Keep reaching.”

— Oprah Winfrey

248. “What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

249. “Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.”

— Oprah Winfrey

250. “Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here.”

— Oprah Winfrey