Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Love is a lesson worth learning.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

303. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

305. “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

306. “I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.”

— Oprah Winfrey

307. “What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.”

— Oprah Winfrey

308. “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

309. “What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.”

— Oprah Winfrey

310. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

312. “The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

313. “Life is better when you share it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

314. “Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I’ve made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

315. “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

316. “The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

318. “Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

320. “The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn’t work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

322. “Make the right decision even when nobody’s looking and you will always turn out okay.”

— Oprah Winfrey

323. “Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you’re headed in the wrong direction.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

325. “Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands – you are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

327. “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.”

— Oprah Winfrey

328. “No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.”

— Oprah Winfrey

329. “In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

330. “My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self – my intuition.”

— Oprah Winfrey

331. “Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.”

— Oprah Winfrey

332. “Say “Thank You” because your faith is so strong that you don’t doubt that what ever the problem, you’ll get through it. You’re saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.”

— Oprah Winfrey

333. “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

334. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey

335. “If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.”

— Oprah Winfrey

336. “All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.”

— Oprah Winfrey

337. “The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.”

— Oprah Winfrey

338. “Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.”

— Oprah Winfrey

339. “Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

340. “I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.”

— Oprah Winfrey

341. “Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’”

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342. “The energy we put out in the world is the energy we get back. So if you want more love in your life, set your intention to be more loving. If you seek kindness, focus your energy on empathy and compassion. Conversely, if you wonder why there are so many angry people in your life, look no further than the resentment you hold in your own heart.”

— Oprah Winfrey

343. “I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don’t define you. It’s what you stand for, what you’re willing to do, how close to the truth you’re willing to be in your life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

344. “What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.”

— Oprah Winfrey

345. “Step through new doors. The majority of the time there’s something fantastic on the other side.”

— Oprah Winfrey

346. “Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.”

— Oprah Winfrey

347. “True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.”

— Oprah Winfrey

348. “Your life is always speaking to you. It speaks in whispers, guiding you to your next right step.”

— Oprah Winfrey

349. “Mr. Right is coming, but he’s in Africa and he’s walking.”

— Oprah Winfrey

350. “For years I’ve advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.”

— Oprah Winfrey