I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

— Oprah Winfrey

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

— Oprah Winfrey

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Oprah Winfrey

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

— Oprah Winfrey

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

— Oprah Winfrey

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

— Oprah Winfrey

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

— Oprah Winfrey

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

— Oprah Winfrey

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.

— Oprah Winfrey