Leadership Oprah Quotes & Sayings

How you spend your time defines who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly in obedience, and if you are told this is that only right road toward the idealized good, then most likely you are dealing with a fanatic. If you are told to kill for the sake of peace, you are dealing with someone who does not understand peace or justice. If you are told to give up your free will, you are dealing with a fanatic! — Seth

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes. — James F. Cooper

As long as the team is pulling together, I'm happy to be a part of it. — Yasiel Puig

All you need to do is know who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up. — Teri Hatcher

Leadership is about empathy. — Oprah Winfrey

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion. — David Foster Wallace

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format. — Gene Roddenberry

It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others. — Marilyn Manson

Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret. — Patrick Ness

How you can come to love an animal! She doesn't talk, but she speaks with her eyes, her paws, her meows, and I understand her. — Zlata Filipovic

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it. — Oprah Winfrey

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel. — Iyanla Vanzant

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. — Johnny Knoxville