Over the years, I’ve interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I’ve ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth. – Oprah Winfrey
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others. – Oprah Winfrey
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction. – Oprah Winfrey
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. – Oprah Winfrey
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
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. – Oprah Winfrey
When you’re the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you’re the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are. – Oprah Winfrey
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I’m not willing to go. – Oprah Winfrey
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be. – Oprah Winfrey
Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line. – Oprah Winfrey
I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career. – Oprah Winfrey
You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean. – Oprah Winfrey
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 grandmother’s life. – Oprah Winfrey
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. – Oprah Winfrey
When you forgive somebody, it doesn’t necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table. – 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
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier. – Oprah Winfrey
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. – Oprah Winfrey
I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me. – Oprah Winfrey
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. – Oprah Winfrey
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. – Oprah Winfrey
