Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

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.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

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.

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.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

This is your moment. Own it.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Everyone wants 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.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

What least makes a mother is biology.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

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

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.