“You cannot be my friend and use the N- word around me. I feel strongly about it… I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they’re pretending to be something they’re not.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“«The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.»”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“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
“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
―
Oprah Winfrey
“My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,
one conscious decision at a time.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
―
Oprah Winfrey