Oprah Winfrey Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

the three things that i want to leave with you just these three i could do ten i could do a whole life class but just these three things will carry you if you let them first and foremost knowing who you are knowing who you are being able to answer this question who am i and what do i want who am i really my answer is i am god's child i am that which is born of all that is i am as pierre schaden said a spiritual being having a human experience come trailing the breath of the ancestors yet but trailing the breath of the angels and understanding that because i am connected to the source of all that is all that is possible is possible for me that's who i am and what do i want i don't want to just be successful in the world i don't want to just make a mark or have a legacy the answer to that question for me is i want to fulfill the highest truest expression of myself as a human being i want to fulfill the promise that the creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells that made up me what do i want you must have some kind of vision for your life even if you don't know the plan you have to have a direction in which you choose to go what i've learned is that's a great metaphor for life you want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you're not life will drive you so knowing who you really are in this space and time that we embody that's number one what do you want who are you number two you must find a way to serve [Music] martin luther king said that not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service now we live in a world where everybody wants to be famous and where we admire people for just being famous we think being known brings us value the truth is all of that will fade in time in three years you won't be able to name the housewives of banana the real truth is that service and significance service and the significance that you bring to your service is that which is lasting so to be able to whatever your occupation or job or talent or gift is our honorees today getting doctorate degrees to apparently opposite fields hiv and aids and the spoken word but what they have in common is service using the spoken word in service to community and the world using your knowledge and information about hiv and aids and medicine in service to the world and if you look at all the most successful people in the world whether they know it or not they have that paradigm of service everybody's talking about mark zuckerberg and ipo [Music] service jay-z rapid service through the word to people through song for many years i was really just happy to be on tv and people would stop and say oh you on tv yeah i'm on tv i like being on tv it's a nice job and it was about the time that i received my honorary doctorate from spelman around 1993 so i don't know if that had something to do with it i thought of myself as dr winfrey that i went back and i took a long look at what it was i was doing on on tv and made a decision that i was no longer going to just be on tv but i was going to use tv as a platform as a force for good and not be used by tv and i will tell you my decision to make that significant change in the way i operated on television using television as a service changed my career exponentially [Music] service through medicine service through art using whatever it is you produce your product as a way of giving back to the world when you shift the paradigm of whatever it is you choose to do to service and you bring significance to that success will i promise you follow you service and significance equals success that's number two number three it's so simple but so hard to do always do the right thing be excellent people notice think of how you notice you go to taco bell somebody gives you extra napkin and some sauce you notice you want to go back to that person because even at taco bell excellence shows itself be excellent let excellence be your brand everybody talks about building a brand i never even knew what that was when people would say you're a brand i would say no i'm just oprah what i recognize now is that my choice to in every way in every example in every experience to do the right thing and the excellent thing is what has created the brand and what i know is that when you are excellent you become unforgettable people remember you you stand out regardless of what it is you become an unforgettable woman and that is what we all want we want to be unforgettable and not forgettable so doing the right thing even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you i promise you that why because the third law of motion is always at work for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction that is so true in all of our lives you just have to do the right thing and the right thing will follow you even when people don't support it i remember many times on my show there are many shows y'all never saw and the reason you didn't see them is because i got the last vote and i remember 2010 my team hardest working team in television had done this interview with a woman who turns out she was a sunday school teacher by day and a sex addict at night they were like you won't believe it we got her going out we got her with the men and we get to show her and she was willing to show us everything i sat down with a woman for an interview that was taped and during the process of the interview i said why are you doing this and she said oh i want to help people i want to tell my story and i want to help people i said do you have children she says yes i have a 10 year old son i knew right then this is never going to see the light of day so we got off the air and i said to the lady we are not going to air that show and she said why my producer said why she knew she was being filmed she knew what she was saying she knows what you i said because her son will never get over it her son will never get over it and it's not worth a rating point to me not worth the rating point to me to know that there's a ten-year-old boy who's destroyed because his mother went on the oprah winfrey show and told all her business you do the right thing even when other people think it may not be and oftentimes when you make a decision to do the right thing immediately you're faced with doubt was that the right thing was that the right decision i don't know was that the right thing you always know it's the right thing when in the end there is peace you are rewarded by peace in knowing that you did the right thing

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Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 17 2020