Oprah Winfrey
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Anything is possible.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
You become what you think about.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Love that is true never grows old.
Love is a verb.
You complete me.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Every human heart is human.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Go ahead, make my day.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You're as old as you behave.
Come, let us make love deathless.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
My heart is ever at your service.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
There's no crying in baseball !
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Let's roll.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.