Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Memories Quotes, Book Quotes

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

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The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

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Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.

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When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

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Nothing happens until you decide.

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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

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What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

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I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.

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I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

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People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

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This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

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I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

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