Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don’t. It’s really very, very simple, but you’ve got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people – or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.”

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

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

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254. “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.”

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

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256. “It’s not easy being grateful all the time. But it’s when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you.”

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257. “If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.”

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258. “The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change – or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.”

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259. “Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.”

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260. “You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!”

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261. “Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.”

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262. “Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.”

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263. “Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.”

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

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265. “The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”

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266. “Your gut is your inner compass.”

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267. “There are no mistakes in life!”

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268. “I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them – there’s only us.”

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269. “One percent doubt is zero percent faith.”

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270. “What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that’s greater than other people and greater than myself.”

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

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272. “You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that’s why you’re here.”

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273. “If it never rained, nothing would grow.”

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274. “Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.”

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275. “I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.”

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276. “Whatever you fear most has no power – it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.”

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277. “The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.”

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278. “I see all art as a complement to telling people’s stories. I’m in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person’s story.”

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279. “When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.”

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280. “If you don’t heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.”

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281. “Don’t worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.”

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282. “I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.”

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283. “You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.”

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284. “I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time.”

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285. “If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.”

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286. “That’s what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that’s a powerful thing.”

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287. “All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it.”

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288. “Difficulties come when you don’t pay attention to life’s whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you’ll get a scream.”

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289. “I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.”

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290. “You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.”

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291. “I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.”

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292. “Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.”

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293. “Nothing happens until you decide.”

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294. “When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.”

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295. “Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.”

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296. “I’m a truth seeker. That’s what I do every day on the show – put out the truth. Some people don’t like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.”

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297. “Love is a lesson worth learning.”

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298. “It’s up to each of us to get very still and say, ‘This is who I am.’ No one else defines your life. Only you do.”

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299. “You aren’t your past, you are probability of your future.”

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300. “One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.”

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