Arianna Huffington Quotes

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.

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.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

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.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.

The happiest people are the most giving people

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.

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

Never make decisions from a place of lack.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

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.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep.

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.

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.