Oprah Winfrey

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

I’ve lived in this fame trip since 1986. I’ve found that unless you’re rooted in something bigger than fame, you start believing your own hype.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

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

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, “Nothing is impossible!!!”

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

An entrepreneur’s ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’