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. Motivation ark
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 de Chardin 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 becouse 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 fulfil the highest, truest expression of myself as a human being. I want to fulfil the promise that the Creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells that made up me. What 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. 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 thing 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 Atlanta. 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 doctor degrees.
Two apparently opposite fields HIV and AIDSv and the spoken word. But they have in common is service. Using the spoken word in service to community in 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. Service. Jay Z raping. 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 was 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. Then I went back and I took long look at what it was I was doing 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. 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 = Success
That's number two. Number three it"s so simple, but so hard to do.
" Always do the right things" 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 cuz even at Tako 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 say you're a brand I would say, "No I'm just Oprah". What I recognize now is that my choice to it every way, in every example, in every experience to do the right thing and the excellent thing is what has created the brand. What I now is that when you are excellent you become unforgettable. People remember you. You stand out. We got as at 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. We'll 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 you 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 on 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 man 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 sais: "Yes, I have a ten 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 a rating point to me to know 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 is that the right thing. You always know it's the right thing.
When in the end there is a peace. You are rewarded by peace and knowing that you did the right thing.