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 WinfreyRead
Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.
Interpretation
Pursue your unique passion and follow your intuition to achieve success.
Oprah Winfrey emphasizes the importance of recognizing and honoring our individual callings or purposes in life. By trusting our instincts and pursuing what truly resonates with us, we align ourselves with the path that leads to success, both personally and professionally.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a group of young entrepreneurs.
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.
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
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