You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

—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....

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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

—Oprah Winfrey

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

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

More quotations tagged with “dreams”

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

—Margaret Deland

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things—they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

—Kathe Kollwitz

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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