Oprah Winfrey Quotes

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

When in doubt, take the next step.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

When in doubt...shoe it out.

The next move is always the test.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.