Top 160 Arianna Huffington Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.”

— Arianna Huffington

52. “Often, you’ll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn’t the opposite of success – it’s a stepping stone to success.”

— Arianna Huffington

53. “Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.”

— Arianna Huffington

54. “Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.”

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55. “What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about ‘Am I getting ahead?’ and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.”

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56. “There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if – as the poet Rumi put it – everything is rigged in our favor.”

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57. “Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.”

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58. “The happiest people are the most giving people.”

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59. “If we don’t know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it’s not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.”

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60. “I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like ‘what is a good life?’ Socrates famously said that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ I started asking these questions from the starting point of ‘what is success?’”

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61. “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.”

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62. “Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.”

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63. “When your house is burning down, you don’t worry about the remodeling.”

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64. “Naysayers have little power over us – unless we give it to them.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of the soul, we’ve all experienced times in which we’re fully connected with ourselves.”

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67. “Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.”

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68. “Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.”

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69. “Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.”

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70. “At the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it’s time for a third metric, beyond money and power – one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.”

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

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72. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – RABINDRANATH TAGORE.”

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73. “We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don’t live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?”

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74. “The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn’t the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It’s not that you never have fear, but that you don’t let your fears stop you.”

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75. “When we feel like there isn’t enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time,” wrote sociologist Christine Carter, “we don’t actually need more time. We need more stillness.”

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76. “When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.”

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77. “Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.”

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78. “It’s important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to move from “How do we save newspapers?” to “How do we save and strengthen journalism?” – however it is delivered.”

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79. “Today we often use deadlines – real and imaginary – to imprison ourselves.”

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80. “Basically, success the way we’ve defined it is no longer sustainable. It’s no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.”

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81. “It’s nice to be nice, but it can be extremely draining and self-destructive when it mutes our voice, holds us back, and undermines our authenticity.”

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82. “I’m passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.”

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83. “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.”

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84. “Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”

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85. “Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.”

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86. “Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from – or have overlooked – or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.”

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87. “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.”

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88. “The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country – the democratic process – is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.”

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89. “In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: “Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.”

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90. “We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.”

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91. “Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.”

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92. “The current male-dominated model of success – which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground – isn’t working for women, and it’s not working for men, either.”

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

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94. “Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?”

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95. “You can complete a project by dropping it.”

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96. “Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over.”

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97. “Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.”

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98. “I’m much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.”

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99. “Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn’t really mean it.”

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100. “To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.”

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