Oprah Winfrey Quotes To Inspire Passion, Leadership and Love

Some may consider Oprah Winfrey the definition of the American Dream, so it’s our honor to share with you these insightful Oprah Winfrey quotes on her passion, leadership qualities and love.

1. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ― Oprah Winfrey

2. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” ― Oprah Winfrey

3. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.” ― Oprah Winfrey

4. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”― Oprah Winfrey

5. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”― Oprah Winfrey

6. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ― Oprah Winfrey

7. “One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.” ― Oprah Winfrey

8. “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” ― Oprah Winfrey

9. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” ― Oprah Winfrey

10. “Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.” ― Oprah Winfrey

11. “Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.” ― Oprah Winfrey

12. “It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.” ― Oprah Winfrey

13. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” ― Oprah Winfrey

14. “You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.” ― Oprah Winfrey

15. “So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.” ― Oprah Winfrey

16. “I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoy the process.”

17. “When people show you who they are … believe them!”

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Charles Dickens Quotes on Self-Worth, Love, and More

This selection of Charles Dickens quotes will remind you to keep your eyes open, your heart full, and your mind wise.

1. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens

2. “Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.” –Charles Dickens

3. “I wear the chain I forged in life…. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” – Charles Dickens

4. “Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.” –Charles Dickens

5. “Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” –Charles Dickens

6. “Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.” –Charles Dickens

7. “Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.” – Charles Dickens

8. “The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”― Charles Dickens

9. “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine; the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” – Charles Dickens

10. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.” –Charles Dickens

11. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” – Charles Dickens

12. “My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.” – Charles Dickens

13. “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” –Charles Dickens

14. “There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.” – Charles Dickens

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Quotes to inspire travel with your loved one

If you are planning a trip with your loved one, take a read through these quotes first to get your excitement going.

“There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

— Anonymous

“Let’s never come here again because it would never be as much fun.“

— Lost in Translation

“The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself.”

— Wallace Stevens

“I have found out there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

— Mark Twain

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”

— Robert Brault

“Though we travel the world over to find the beauty we must carry it with us or we find it not”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is just a journey“

— Princess Diana

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

— John Steinbeck

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— Andre Gide

“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars”

― Cecelia Ahern

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

— The Dhammapada

“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.”

— Richard Branson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— Mark Twain

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