Oprah Winfrey Quotes - Page 32

• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

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  Block, School, Secret

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• Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

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  Wise, Gratitude, Greatest Treasure

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

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  Eye, Vision, Blindness

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• Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

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  Greatness, Complaining, Use

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

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  Powerful, Doors, Life Is

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• Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

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  Color, Canvas, Life Is

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• The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Triumph

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• Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

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  Dream, Hard Work, Waiting

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• I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

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  People, Life Is, Truth Seekers

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• There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

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  Voice, People, Should

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• You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.

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  Men, Needs, Spaghetti

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• Honour the difficult.

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  Difficult, Honour

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• I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Tests

  "Oprah DNA Testy". Interview with Lachlan Cartwright, nypost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it.

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  Missing, Would Be, Minutes

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• It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

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  What Matters, Giving, World

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• Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

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  Disappointment, Come Up, Outlook

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• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

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  What Matters, Doe, World

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

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  Kind

  "Oprah Winfrey: I'm no lesbian". www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Work, Passion, Careers

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• You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.

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  Believe, Said, Heard

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• Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

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  Chance, Knows, Life Teaches

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• What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

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  Powerful, Self, Persons

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• All you need to do is know who you are.

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  Leadership, Needs, Knows

  "Oprah Tells Howard Grads Not to Be 'Slaves' to 'Selling Out,' Addresses Black Youth" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2007.

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• To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

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  Weed, Marijuana, Television

  "Oprah Winfrey admits she smoked marijuana in 1982: 'I hear it's gotten better'" By Margaret Eby, www.nydailynews.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

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  Relationship, People, Promise

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