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Purpose Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

43 Purpose quotes by Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey reminds us that each person has a unique purpose that can’t be filled by anyone else. She notes that practicing gratitude can bring more blessings into life. She also points out that obstacles often hide lessons that guide us forward.

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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

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I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

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Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

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Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully

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Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

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Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

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I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

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You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why…

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Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue…

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I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

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Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear

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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of…

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Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead

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I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

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No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly,…

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I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work…

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I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I…

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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in…

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I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become…

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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring…

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Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy…

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We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to…

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“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful”

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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

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No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

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Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there

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The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

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You have the RIGHT to change your mind

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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for…

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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

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Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

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When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

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I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it

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If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

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What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

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Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective…

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

We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy…

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Your soul tells you when it's time to move on.