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44 Influential Arianna Huffington Quotes
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.
In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbe’s first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. In 2014 Forbe’s named her as the 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World.
Here are 44 Arianna Huffington quotes:
1. “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
2. “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.” – Arianna Huffington
3. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Arianna Huffington
4. “I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids.” – Arianna Huffington
5. “If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.” – Arianna Huffington
6. “Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let along aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.” – Arianna Huffington
7. “Just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.” – Arianna Huffington
8. “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.” – Arianna Huffington
9. “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.” – Arianna Huffington
10. ”Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.” – Arianna Huffington
11. “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.” – Arianna Huffington
12. “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
13. “Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.” – Arianna Huffington
14. “The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are – as women and as mothers.” – Arianna Huffington
15. “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
16. “It’s no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.” – Arianna Huffington
17. “The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.” – Arianna Huffington
18. “But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” – Arianna Huffington
19. “The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 – only this time, it’s not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it’s tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.” – Arianna Huffington
20th Arianna Huffington Quote – “Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.” – Arianna Huffington
21. “Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.” – Arianna Huffington
22. “America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.” – Arianna Huffington
23. “I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!” – Arianna Huffington
24. “Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred – it is the amphetamine of its believers.” – Arianna Huffington
25. “But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent – because everyday fears – like not being approved of – pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.” – Arianna Huffington
26. “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 after-life.” – Arianna Huffington
27. “There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.” – Arianna Huffington
28. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Arianna Huffington
29. “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” – Arianna Huffington
30. “Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.” – Arianna Huffington
31. “Don’t just climb the ladder of success – a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout – but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.” – Arianna Huffington
32. “Mainstream media tends to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.” – Arianna Huffington
33. “Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” – Arianna Huffington
34. “Never let life’s Iagos—flatterers, dissemblers—onto your train.” – Arianna Huffington
35. “There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.” – Arianna Huffington
36. “Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.” – Arianna Huffington
37. “Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.” – Arianna Huffington
38. “Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.” – Arianna Huffington
39. “We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.” – Arianna Huffington
40th Arianna Huffington Quote – “We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.” – Arianna Huffington
41. “We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.” – Arianna Huffington
42. “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.” – Arianna Huffington
43. “Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?” – Arianna Huffington
44. “You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can’t do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well being.” – Arianna Huffington