Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

A lot of people didn't think I would be here. But I put myself in great positions and I always had the mentality that what is meant for me is meant for me. The only person that can stop you is yourself.

We're the only ones who can change our reality.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

I'm the one I need to work with.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Your success and happiness start with you.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.