Oprah Winfrey Graduation Quotations

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

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

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

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