Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Unless you choose to do great things with it,

it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,

or how much power you have.

When you think about growing and,

being empowered yourself,

it is what you've been able to do,

for other people that leaves you the fullest.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

I consider the world,

this Earth,

to be like a school,

and our life the classrooms.

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.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's,

if you are excellent,

everybody wants to be in your line.

If you want to feel good,

you have to go out and do some good.

I don't think you ever stop giving,

I really don't,

I think it's an on,

going process,

And it's not just about,

being able to write a check,

It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I think people who have good parents come

into the world with a strength,

and an advantage.

I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

What I know is,

is that if you do work that you love,

and the work fulfills you,

the rest will come.

Even people who believe they deserve,

to be happy and have nice things often,

don't feel worthy once they have them.

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.

You are who you are at this moment because of,

everything that's ever happened to you,

everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Most people honestly want to do as well,

as they can in their lives.

You're either humble or you're not.

If you were a jerk before the fame,

you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight.

Whoever you are really comes through.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

To me,

the money is it's certainly a wonderful thing,

But it is in direct proportion to how you're able,

to bless yourself and bless others with it.

My whole reason for creating a network,

is literally to bring little pieces of light,

It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world,

,to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

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.