Oprah Winfrey

“Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.”

“If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.”

“Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.”

“Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive”

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

“I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”

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

“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.”

“No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.”

“Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.”

“The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.”

“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.”

“Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.”

“If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.”

“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”

“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.”

“Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.”

“To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.”

“Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.”

“Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.”