Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”

— Oprah Winfrey

402. “I can’t imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.”

— Oprah Winfrey

403. “I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.”

— Oprah Winfrey

404. “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.”

— Oprah Winfrey

405. “It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

406. “Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.”

— Oprah Winfrey

407. “Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To be less than your best is a sin.”

— Oprah Winfrey

408. “You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That’s how you keep it. That’s how you get it. That’s how you grow it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

409. “Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.”

— Oprah Winfrey

410. “It’s all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.”

— Oprah Winfrey

411. “Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.”

— Oprah Winfrey

412. “I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”

— Oprah Winfrey

413. “A gift isn’t a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.”

— Oprah Winfrey

414. “I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”

— Oprah Winfrey

415. “One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

416. “I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.”

— Oprah Winfrey

417. “Live from the heart of yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

418. “You can’t accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

419. “People have power to make a difference in their lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

420. “I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own.”

— Oprah Winfrey

421. “Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.”

— Oprah Winfrey

422. “There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!”

— Oprah Winfrey

423. “Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

424. “Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now. You’ll handle whatever shake-up the next moment brings when you get to it. In this moment, you’re still breathing. In this moment, you’ve survived. In this moment, you’re finding a way to step onto higher ground.”

— Oprah Winfrey

425. “I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking “Why did this happen to me?” but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.”

— Oprah Winfrey

426. “We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can’t give what you don’t have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you’re running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

427. “My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

— Oprah Winfrey

428. “I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

430. “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

431. “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

432. “People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.”

— Oprah Winfrey

433. “In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

438. “Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

440. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

442. “Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!”

— Oprah Winfrey

443. “That’s really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.”

— Oprah Winfrey

444. “It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.”

— Oprah Winfrey

445. “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

446. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

449. “The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they’re pretending to be something they’re not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

450. “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.”

— Oprah Winfrey