Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, September 2002

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, September 2003
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, January 2004
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, December 2003
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine February 2001 issue
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, August 2004
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey
Everything in your world is created by what you think.
Oprah Winfrey - Oprah Magazine, May 2004
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, February 2003
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, April 2003
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
Oprah Winfrey
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.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
Oprah Winfrey - "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, February 2003
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, February 2003
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

- Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine, September 2002