50 Influential Arianna Huffington Quotes That Will Get You Out Of Bed In The Morning

Updated: July 27th, 2021

Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman.

Huffington is a co-founder of The Huffington Post and the founder/CEO of Thrive Global. Thrive Global is an American company that provides behavior change technology. She is also the author of over 15 books.

As of July 2021, she has an estimated net worth of $100M.

We've put together an incredible collection of Arianna Huffington quotes to read.

Here they are:

50 Influential Arianna Huffington Quotes That Will Get You Out Of Bed In The Morning

List of Inspiring Arianna Huffington Quotes

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“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


“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


“You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions sometimes and that we’ll screw up royally sometimes.” Arianna Huffington


“Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of choice.” Arianna Huffington


“Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.” Arianna Huffington


“Vision without execution is hallucination.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“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


“Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.” Arianna Huffington


“Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential for wisdom.” Arianna Huffington


“Coincidences connect us across time, to one another, to ourselves and to an invisible order in the universe.” Arianna Huffington


“I find that I am much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.” Arianna Huffington


“Never make decisions from a place of lack.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” Arianna Huffington


“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom.” Arianna Huffington


“I think especially as women we need to recognize that feeling pressure is completely self-imposed.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“Are we living our dream, or are we living somebody else’s dream?” Arianna Huffington


“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.” Arianna Huffington


“When we believe in something, we got to stay with it, even when the world tells us no.” Arianna Huffington


“Meditation: a reboot for your brain and your soul.” Arianna Huffington


“The happiest people are the most giving.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“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


“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


“The soul is who I am. The soul is who you are, and it is one breath away.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“Live your life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“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


“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


“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


“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.” Arianna Huffington


“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


“There can be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.” Arianna Huffington


“Be a go-giver.” Arianna Huffington


“Rob yourself of sleep and you’ll find you do not function at your personal best.” Arianna Huffington


“The difference between failure and success is perseverance.” Arianna Huffington


“Ours is a generation bloated with information and starved for wisdom.” Arianna Huffington


“There’s no love more intense than the love we have for our kids.” Arianna Huffington


“Don’t buy society’s definition of success because it’s not working for anyone.” Arianna Huffington


“Too many of us leave our lives – and, in fact, our souls – behind when we go to work.” Arianna Huffington


“The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.” Arianna Huffington

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