Oprah Winfrey Quotes

You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that’s ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you’re always growing.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

If you’re sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

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.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn’t necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don’t feel worthy once they have them.

You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love–who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.