Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

I was once afraid of people saying, Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am...

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

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Don't take things personally. Everything's not all about you.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.