You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

—Oprah Winfrey

About Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media mogul, actress, executive producer, author, and television personality. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011....

More quotations from Oprah Winfrey

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.

—Oprah Winfrey

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

—Oprah Winfrey

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

—Oprah Winfrey

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

—Oprah Winfrey

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn—which is what life is all about.

—Oprah Winfrey

More quotations tagged with “defeat”

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

—Michel de Montaigne

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

—George Edward Woodberry

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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