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Oprah Winfrey Quotes

19 quotes from Oprah Winfrey — Media mogul, talk show host, actress, and philanthropist..

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

Adventure

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Leadership

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Wisdom

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Courage

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Success

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Compassion

You are responsible for your life. If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you... You are wasting your time.

Responsibility

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

Self-Worth

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Empowerment

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Authenticity

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

Growth

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Mindfulness

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Resilience

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

Belief

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Love

North America's first multi-billionaire black person, and the greatest black philanthropist in American history. Serial entrepreneur who combined business savvy with showmanship to revolutionize an entire industry.

Brian Kenny, Harvard Business School, introducing the Oprah case study

She shifted away from people-pleasing, found her unique voice, and embraced vulnerability as a key leadership strength.

Bill George, Harvard Business School

I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.

Oprah Winfrey

She'll have more riveting conversations with the people we all want to hear from, in some very unexpected places. Oprah's getting untethered from the chairs, opening up her world and taking you with her.

Discovery Communications, describing Oprah's Next Chapter, 2010

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