Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I’m not even kind of a lesbian.

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.

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.

It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.

All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Don’t let people talk you into what they think is you.

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

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don’t know anything about.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.