Oprah Winfrey

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it – fight back!

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

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

You will reap what you sow,’ rings true again. And you will be reaping it. A good thing to think about.

Make today worth remembering.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something that mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.