Top 500 Oprah Winfrey Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

402. “I cannot be defined by what other people think.”

— Oprah Winfrey

403. “Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

405. “Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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409. “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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

411. “You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.”

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412. “I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”

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413. “Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.”

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414. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”

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415. “When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.”

— Oprah Winfrey

416. “I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.”

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417. “You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.”

— Oprah Winfrey

418. “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

419. “I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

420. “I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

— Oprah Winfrey

421. “What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”

— Oprah Winfrey

422. “It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.”

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423. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint.”

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424. “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

425. “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.”

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426. “Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive.”

— Oprah Winfrey

427. “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.”

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

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429. “I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.”

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430. “Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead.”

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431. “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

432. “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.”

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433. “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.”

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

— Oprah Winfrey

435. “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

436. “The best of times is now.”

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437. “I always knew I’d be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.”

— Oprah Winfrey

438. “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

439. “Live from the heart of yourself.”

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440. “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.”

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

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442. “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.”

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443. “Your life isn’t about a big break. It’s about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.”

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444. “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.”

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445. “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.”

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

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447. “What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.”

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448. “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

449. “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.”

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450. “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