It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

—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....

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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

—Oprah Winfrey

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

—Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

—Oprah Winfrey

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

—Oprah Winfrey

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

—Oprah Winfrey

More quotations tagged with “wisdom”

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

—Marilyn vos Savant

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

—Marcel Proust

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

—John Stuart Mill

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