Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Follow your instincts. Thats where true wisdom manifests itself.

When I look at the future its so bright it burns my eyes.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

It isnt until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

When I look to the future its so bright it burns my eyes.

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

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

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

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is Gods way of moving you in another direction.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

If youre constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, you are going to have to learn to do this, and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmothers life.