Oprah Winfrey Quotes: 67 Best Inspirational Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

01. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you — always.” – Oprah Winfrey

02. “Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.” – Oprah Winfrey

03. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey

04. “It’s much easier for me to make major life, multimillion-dollar decisions than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.” – Oprah Winfrey

05. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey

06. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

07. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey

08. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey

09. “The reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.” – Oprah Winfrey

10. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey

11. “Some women have a weakness for shoes…I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.” – Oprah Winfrey

12. “Dogs are my favorite role models … I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh.” – Oprah Winfrey

13. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.” – Oprah Winfrey

14. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey

15. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey

16. “I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don’t want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.” – Oprah Winfrey

17. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

18. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey

19. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

20. “Passion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing.” – Oprah Winfrey

21. “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” – Oprah Winfrey

22. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

23. “Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don’t feel worthy once they have them.” – Oprah Winfrey

24. “The answers keep unfolding as your life expands, if you’re willing to see things for what they are—and what they can be.” – Oprah Winfrey

25. “If you don’t know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.” – Oprah Winfrey

26. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

27. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

28. “We have to make the choice—every single day—to exemplify the truth, the respect, and the grace that we wish for this world.” – Oprah Winfrey

29. “The truth is that the naysayers in your life can never be fully satisfied. Whether you hide or shine, they’ll always feel threatened because they don’t believe they are enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

30. “One of the hardest things in life to learn is which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.” – Oprah Winfrey

31. “Beginning when we are girls, most of us are taught to deflect praise. We apologize for our accomplishments. We try to level the field with our family and friends by downplaying our brilliance. We settle for the passenger’s seat when we long to drive. That’s why so many of us have been willing to hide our light as adults. Instead of being filled with all the passion and purpose that enable us to offer our best to the world, we empty ourselves in an effort to silence our critics. The truth is that the naysayers in your life can never be fully satisfied. Whether you hide or shine, they’ll always feel threatened because they don’t believe they are enough. So stop paying attention to them. Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are ignoring the owner’s manual your Creator gave you. What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.” – Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure.

32. “Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice.” – Oprah Winfrey

33. “There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

34. “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” – Oprah Winfrey

35. “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

36. “Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other–to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead.” – Oprah Winfrey

37. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey

38. “So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.” – Oprah Winfrey

39. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ” – Oprah Winfrey

40. “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” – Oprah Winfrey

41. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey

42. “I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

43. “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” – Oprah Winfrey

44. “You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.” – Oprah Winfrey

45. “I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.’” – Oprah Winfrey

46. “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.” – Oprah Winfrey

47. “I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.” “I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoy the process.” “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

48. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

49. “You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are, you become a better person.” – Oprah Winfrey

50. “It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.” – Oprah Winfrey

51. “Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.” – Oprah Winfrey

52. “When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.” ― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure.

53. “I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.” – Oprah Winfrey

54. “I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives — when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty — the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.” – Oprah Winfrey

55. “When you’re open to receiving them, the possibilities just keep on coming.” – Oprah Winfrey

56. “Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You’ll see the difference it makes.” – Oprah Winfrey

57. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey

58. “What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.” – Oprah Winfrey

59. “My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.” – Oprah Winfrey

60. “Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.” – Oprah Winfrey

61. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey

62. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.” – Oprah Winfrey

63. “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, What I Know For Sure

64. “This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you’re too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world.” – Oprah Winfrey

65. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey

66. “I would like to thank the people who’ve brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.” – Oprah Winfrey

67. “Difficulties come when you don’t pay attention to life’s whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you’ll get a scream.” – Oprah Winfrey