Oprah Winfrey

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, “So long as you’re still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other—to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

When you know better...You do better.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

Live your best life!

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.