The Most Empowering Oprah Winfrey Quotes That Will Improve Your Life

By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory

The queen of Primetime television, Oprah Winfrey has forever been an inspiration for all of us. Her extremely empowering personality has made her the queen of television, which she uses to inspire other people. She has been one of the forerunners for many women’s movements in Hollywood, including #metoo– the movement that took up the entire world by storm. She clamored for equal pay for women, and in the Golden Globes Awards 2018, spoke about how she believed women would come out on top- irrespective of the many injustices done towards them.

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Here are 25 quotes by Oprah Winfrey that highlight just that.

1. When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
2. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment
3. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
4. Turn your wounds into wisdom.
5. You can have it all. Just not all at once.
6. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
7. One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.
8. 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.
9. The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
10. Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
11. I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
12. Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
13. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
14. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.
15. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
16. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
17. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
18. It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control
19. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
20. My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
21. Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
22. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
23. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
24. The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
25. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

 

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Oprah Winfrey is the real deal of the entertainment industry, and her presence has been encouraging and empowering to all.