Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Happiness is there for the taking – and the making.

What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I’ve been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don’t want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

Following your heart’s desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

The energy we put out in the world is the energy we get back. So if you want more love in your life, set your intention to be more loving. If you seek kindness, focus your energy on empathy and compassion. Conversely, if you wonder why there are so many angry people in your life, look no further than the resentment you hold in your own heart.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that’s really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.

If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

Say “Thank You” because your faith is so strong that you don’t doubt that what ever the problem, you’ll get through it. You’re saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

What I know for sure: Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid – and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self – my intuition.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

Mr. Right is coming, but he’s in Africa and he’s walking.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there’s something fantastic on the other side.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn’t work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

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.

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change – or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

Life is better when you share it.

Don’t worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don’t define you. It’s what you stand for, what you’re willing to do, how close to the truth you’re willing to be in your life.

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

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

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Gossip reflects the insecurity of those who initiate it.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

Don’t wait for someone else to complete you. ‘Jerry Maguire’ was just a movie.

I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain’t-got kind of stamina.

Make the right decision even when nobody’s looking and you will always turn out okay.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

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

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.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

That’s what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that’s a powerful thing.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

If you don’t heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

The reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.

If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered.

What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

You aren’t your past, you are probability of your future.

It’s up to each of us to get very still and say, ‘This is who I am.’ No one else defines your life. Only you do.

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

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

I’m a truth seeker. That’s what I do every day on the show – put out the truth. Some people don’t like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

Nothing happens until you decide.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that’s greater than other people and greater than myself.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them – there’s only us.

Your gut is your inner compass.

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

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.

All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it.

I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can’t avoid the daily tremors. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one’s own destiny.

If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don’t. It’s really very, very simple, but you’ve got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people – or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

I see all art as a complement to telling people’s stories. I’m in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person’s story.

Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

Whatever you fear most has no power – it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it’s probably right.

Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

The next road is always ahead.

There are no mistakes in life!

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?”

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

It’s not easy being grateful all the time. But it’s when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

Whenever you can’t think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, ‘I’m still here.’ Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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

The roles we play in each other’s lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us – the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn’t matter what your Mama did. It doesn’t matter what your Daddy didn’t do. You are responsible for your life.

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.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

Reading gave me hope.

I’m finally ready to own my own power, to say, “This is who I am.” If you like it, you like it. And if you don’t like it, you don’t. So watch out; I’m gonna fly.

If it’s not hard, you’re not dreaming big enough!

I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

People just want to know that they matter.”

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.

Your life is a reflection of how you think.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

We’re all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don’t do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It’s like cause and effect.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

When you do your best, people notice.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow

I think mentors are important and I don’t think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don’t know it.

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I’m still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

Never give up your power to another person.

I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life’s bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you’d never imagine.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

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

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

Don’t waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It’s not about the other guy. It’s about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you’ve got, all the time, for yourself.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that’s greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Everybody looks at their poop.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

You can’t do it all yourself. Don’t be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.

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 it.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

You are worthy because you were born.

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning – set your intention every day.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Everybody’s life matters.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

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

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You’re defined by what you stand for.