Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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251. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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258. “Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.”

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259. “What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.”

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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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263. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

265. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

269. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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271. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

272. “If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered.”

— Oprah Winfrey

273. “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

274. “We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore.”

— Oprah Winfrey

275. “Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.”

— Oprah Winfrey

276. “The reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”

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277. “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

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

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

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280. “I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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282. “Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

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283. “Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.”

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284. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

285. “Your gut is your inner compass.”

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286. “Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.”

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287. “I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain’t-got kind of stamina.”

— Oprah Winfrey

288. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

289. “Don’t wait for someone else to complete you. ‘Jerry Maguire’ was just a movie.”

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

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291. “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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292. “Nothing happens until you decide.”

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293. “Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.”

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294. “The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

295. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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298. “All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.”

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299. “Love is a lesson worth learning.”

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300. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey