Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. Huffington was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, which is now owned by AOL. In 2011, The Huffington Post was acquired for $315 million dollars and made Huffington the President and Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. May her quotes inspire you to chase your dreams and live life on your own terms.
1. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” Arianna Huffington
2. “I wish I could go back and tell myself that not only is there no trade-off between living a well-rounded life and high performance is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal, wisdom, wonder, and giving. That would have saved me a lot of unnecessary stress, burnout, and exhaustion.” Arianna Huffington
3. “We think mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of the time we put in at work, instead of the quality of the time we put in.” Arianna Huffington
4. “Success is commonly defined as money and power, but increasingly that’s not enough. It’s almost like a two-legged stool where you fall over if that’s all you measure your life by.” Arianna Huffington
5. “You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” Arianna Huffington
6. “Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.” Arianna Huffington
7. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions sometimes and that we’ll screw up royally sometimes.” Arianna Huffington
8. “Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of choice.” Arianna Huffington
9. “Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.” Arianna Huffington
10. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Arianna Huffington
11. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” Arianna Huffington
12. “The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become fearless is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” Arianna Huffington
13. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.” Arianna Huffington
14. “Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential for wisdom.” Arianna Huffington
15. “Coincidences connect us across time, to one another, to ourselves and to an invisible order in the universe.” Arianna Huffington
16. “I find that I am much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.” Arianna Huffington
17. “If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try and blend in.” Arianna Huffington
18. “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.” Arianna Huffington
19. “Never make decisions from a place of lack.” Arianna Huffington
20. “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a third measure of success that goes beyond money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.” Arianna Huffington
21. “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” Arianna Huffington
22. “Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom.” Arianna Huffington
23. “I think especially as women we need to recognize that feeling pressure is completely self-imposed.” Arianna Huffington
24. “The quest for knowledge is pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.” Arianna Huffington
25. “Are we living our dream, or are we living somebody else’s dream?” Arianna Huffington
26. “We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.” Arianna Huffington
27. “When we believe in something, we got to stay with it, even when the world tells us no.” Arianna Huffington
28. “Meditation: a reboot for your brain and your soul.” Arianna Huffington
29. “The happiest people are the most giving.” Arianna Huffington
30. “We have if we’re lucky about 30,000 days to play the game of life. How we play it will be determined by what we value.” Arianna Huffington
31. “So find your place to stand – your place of wisdom and peace and strength. And from that place, lead the third women’s revolution.” Arianna Huffington
32. “Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.” Arianna Huffington
33. “The soul is who I am. The soul is who you are, and it is one breath away.” Arianna Huffington
34. “Ninety-nine percent of the time it’s not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.” Arianna Huffington
35. “Live your life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” Arianna Huffington
36. “We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.” Arianna Huffington
37. “Be sleeping more we in fact become more competent and in control of our lives. It gives new meaning to the old canards of thinking. Women have already broken glass ceilings in Congress, space travel, sports, business and the media, imagine what we can do when we’re all fully awake.” Arianna Huffington
38. “My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.” Arianna Huffington
39. “A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not.” Arianna Huffington
40. “Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.” Arianna Huffington
41. “It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.” Arianna Huffington
42. “There can be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.” Arianna Huffington
43. “Be a go-giver.” Arianna Huffington
44. “Rob yourself of sleep and you’ll find you do not function at your personal best.” Arianna Huffington
45. “The difference between failure and success is perseverance.” Arianna Huffington
46. “Ours is a generation bloated with information and starved for wisdom.” Arianna Huffington
47. “There’s no love more intense than the love we have for our kids.” Arianna Huffington
48. “Don’t buy society’s definition of success because it’s not working for anyone.” Arianna Huffington
49. “Too many of us leave our lives – and, in fact, our souls – behind when we go to work.” Arianna Huffington
