Oprah Winfrey Quotes (1954-)

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About Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born 29 January 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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β€œI'm still off hamburgers.”
β€œTurn your wounds into wisdom.”
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β€œIt felt like a new day.”
β€œ[E]verything is always working out for you.”
β€œThe thing that I do best is "Be Here. Be Now".”
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β€œTrust your heart, and success will come to you.”
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β€œI've been stopped cold from eating another burger!”
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β€œMy reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!”
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β€œSurround yourself with people only who are going to take you higher”
β€œI won't say goodbye, I'll just say until we meet again. To God be the glory.”
β€œ[Attributed to a friend's Buddhist teacher] Be yourself–but be all of you.”
β€œI never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.”
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β€œ[Contradicting an assertion from Angela Davis] Small steps lead to big accomplishments.”
β€œNourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.”
β€œI know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.”
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β€œI believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
β€œWhat other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.”
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β€œWell, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.”
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β€œI understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?”
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β€œ[At the beginning of the midterm campaigns,] I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania, but I will tell you all this β€” if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would've already cast my vote for John Fetterman, for many reasons”
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β€œI will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.”
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β€œ[Winfrey attributes this aphorism to Jeff Weiner, founder of Linkedin] Failure is what’s going to humble you.”
β€œI had a lot of wealthy men calling, telling me that they would run my campaign and raise $1 billion for me. I am actually humbled by the fact that people think that I could be a leader of the free world, but it's just not in my spirit. . . it's not in my DNA”
β€œI would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.”
β€œAs you begin to identify the seeds of knowing along your own path, the first question to ask yourself is, What do I believe? Do you believe that you are worthy of happiness, success, abundance, fulfillment, peace, joy, and love? What I know for sure is you become what you believe.”

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Oprah Winfrey on Commencement speech 2 quotes

β€œNow that I have presented some of the bad news, the good news is that there really is a solution. And the solution is each and every one of you. Because you will become the new editorial gatekeepers, an ambitious army of truth seekers who will arm yourselves with the intelligence, with the insight and the facts necessary to strike down deceit. You’re in a position to keep all of those who now disparage real news, you all are the ones that are going to keep those people in check. Why? Because you can push back and you can answer false narratives with real information and you can set the record straight.”
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Oprah Winfrey on University of the Free State

β€œI came 8 000 miles to say, thank you, Vrystaat!”
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Oprah Winfrey on March for Our Lives

β€œThese inspiring young people remind me of the Freedom Riders of the 60s who also said we’ve had ENOUGH and our voices will be heard.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Knowledge

β€œPeople making bad choices ... and blame but themselves, the beginning reality tv show folks... glad we grew out of that, when you know better, you do better, right?”
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Oprah Winfrey on Hysteria

β€œThis moment in time... anywhere you turn people are talking about how bad things are, how terrible it is...everybody is meeting hysteria with more hysteria... and it’s getting worse... We’re not supposed to match it or even get locked into resisting or pushing against it. We’re supposed to see this moment in time for what it is. We’re supposed to see through it and then transcend it. That is how you overcome hysteria.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Meaning of life

β€œWe all are called, everybody has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it, everytime we have seen a person on the stage who is a success in their life, they spoke of the joy and they spoke of the juice that they receive from doing what they knew that they were meant to be doing. ... It lights you up and it lets you know that you are exactly where you are supposed to be and doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing and that is what I want for all of you and hope that you will take from the show to live from the heart of yourself, you have make a living, I understand that, but you also know what sparks the light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world ... Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world”
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Oprah Winfrey on Healing

β€œI think that, uh, you know, I'm really happy that the message, or at least some of the message of The Secret is reaching mass consciousness in a way that people realize that they can begin to, uh, positively affect their lives. That's why when I was on the show and said "I've lived this way my whole life", and people who watched our show for years know that I've been talking about how you take responsibility for your life and the choices that you make. Empower your life. And so, when I say that, you know, um, that's how I live my life, the message of The Secret, that's what I mean. I also believe, that, uh, medical healing or healing comes in lots of forms. You know that adage about the guy being lost and God sent him a boat and God sent him β€” then he gets to heaven and says "Why didn't you help me?" And God's, "I sent you the boat, fool!" So, that's the way I look at medical healing.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Barack Obama

β€œIt felt like a new day.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Adyashanti

β€œA sought-after gifted spiritual thinker, author and teacher. His message is simple: grace has the power to transform lives.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Mehmet Oz

β€œWhen he made it O.K. to talk about the shape of a good poop, I knew he could talk about anything. He always found ways to make the human body endlessly fascinating.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Harriet Tubman

β€œI am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madam C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Rudy Giuliani

β€œHe's the man of the hour, a man whose extraordinary grace under pressure in the days since this devastating attack has led him to be called America's mayor. He's the mayor of New York City, ladies and gentlemen, Rudy Giuliani.”
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Oprah Winfrey on Salma Hayek

β€œSalma Hayek and I come from two very different worlds: She was born privileged in a small town in Mexico; I was raised poor in rural Mississippi. On the day we meet in a hilltop garden at the J. Paul Getty Museum … I'm as surprised as anyone that our connection is so instant. Who would've thought we would have so much in common? I've interviewed hundreds of people over the years, and never has a conversation resonated so strongly with me. Salma is one of the most passionate and unforgettable young women I've ever met. You need only a few moments in Salma's presence to discover she's a woman set on defining herself β€” try to contain her in a box, and she'll lift off the lid, rise up, and just soar away every single time. … Her candor, her honesty, her boldness, her fire β€” it all made me want to be more truthful with myself. Her passion for life is positively infectious. Talk about going for it β€” this woman has got the "it" big time!”
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Quotes About Oprah Winfrey

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CNN correspondent on Oprah Winfrey

β€œShe actually is somebody who has the ability to move mountains and change minds.”

Howard Davidowitz on Oprah Winfrey

β€œOprah is different. Oprah has an army out there that really listens. She's one of the great marketing machines in history.”

Kitty Kelly on Oprah Winfrey

β€œSo far, I don't see anything negative on this woman. I think she's a real icon. She's much more complex and complicated than just a talk show host. Maya Angelou has said she sees her as a true missionary. Everybody has a different take on Oprah.”

Bessel van der Kolk on Oprah Winfrey

β€œMost great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.”
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Chris Matthews on Oprah Winfrey

β€œShe's β€” her great strength, if anybody watches the show β€” and I think everybody does in Iowa; it's the number one show in Iowa β€” she's instructive. She's empowering. Every time you watch an Oprah broadcast, at the end of it, you know more than you started and you feel stronger. That's her strength.”
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Barack Obama on Oprah Winfrey

β€œWe had a few high-profile moments of our own, including a series of rallies with Oprah Winfrey, who'd become a friend and supporter, and was as wise, funny, and gracious on the trail as she was in person”
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Bill O'Reilly on Oprah Winfrey

β€œYou have to admire Oprah Winfrey. She is the most powerful woman in the country and comes from a very humble background. The woman has succeeded on talent and energy.”

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Nedra Glover Tawwab on Oprah Winfrey 2 quotes

β€œThe first eighteen years of life profoundly impact your entire life. In the book What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Oprah shares her story of childhood trauma and how those experiences shaped her. Her mother beat her for even the slightest offense, and this abuse turned her into a people-pleaser. It took years for her to realize that her behavior as an adult was rooted in her experiences as a child.”
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About Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born 29 January 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.