“During difficult times I often turn to a gospel song called “Stand.” In it, songwriter Donnie McClurkin sings, “What do you do when you’ve done all you can, and it seems like it’s never enough? What do you give when you’ve given your all, and it seems like you can’t make it through?” The answer lies in McClurkin’s simple refrain: “You just stand.” That’s where strength comes from—our ability to face resistance and walk through it. It’s not that people who persevere don’t ever feel doubt, fear, and exhaustion. They do. But in the toughest moments, we can have faith that if we take just one step more than we feel we’re capable of, if we draw on the incredible resolve every human being possesses, we’ll learn some of the most profound lessons life has to offer. What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. The problems that make you want to throw up your hands and holler “Mercy!” will build your tenacity, courage, discipline, and determination.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
~Maya Angelou
Remember this because it will happen many times in your life. When people show you who they are the first time believe them. Not the 29th. time. When a man doesn't call you back the first time, when you are mistreated the first time, when someone shows you lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that this will be followed many many other times, that will some point in life come back to haunt or hurt you. Live your life in truth. Don't pretend to be someone you're not. You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
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Oprah Winfrey
When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful”
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Oprah Winfrey
“My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,
one conscious decision at a time.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”
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Oprah Winfrey
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. Its why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
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Oprah Winfrey
