Explore Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Never give up your power to another person.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

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

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

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

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

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.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

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.

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.