Top 100 Huffington's Quotes
#1. You could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
Molly Ivins
#2. Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. 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 to blend in.
Arianna Huffington
#3. It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment ...
Arianna Huffington
#4. (on Liam Neeson's coping with the death of his wife) ... It's been years and he continues to struggle each and every day, but he is honest with himself about how he feels and continues to work to find acceptance in heartbreak.
Huffington Post
#5. By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.
Arianna Huffington
#6. When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.
Arianna Huffington
#7. Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#8. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#9. To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.
Arianna Huffington
#10. Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.
Arianna Huffington
#12. I can change nearly everything about myself. I can run from my children and trade in my spouse, move to another country and raise green rabbits for a living, but unless I care for my soul, I will not have changed who I am.
Arianna Huffington
#14. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#16. Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back
Arianna Huffington
#17. I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.
Arianna Huffington
#18. Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington
#19. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#21. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#22. When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
Michael Huffington
#23. 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
#24. Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.
Arianna Huffington
#25. THE MOST INTIMATE relationship we'll ever have is with our own body. It's the headquarters of our fears and anxieties. It's also the cause of many of them. Which is why we can never really be fearless until we stop judging our looks and accept them. I've
Arianna Huffington
#26. Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.
Arianna Huffington
#28. Socrates defines his life's mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive.
Arianna Huffington
#29. 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
#30. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#31. It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.
Arianna Huffington
#32. 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
#33. Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
Aaron Schock
#34. 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
#35. Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.
Arianna Huffington
#36. It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?'
Arianna Huffington
#37. And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.
Arianna Huffington
#39. 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
#40. The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
Arianna Huffington
#41. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#42. The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
Randall Park
#43. I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but historically, a lot of what they did was aggregation. Newspapers don't want to become that, and yet 'Huffington Post' is incredibly popular. It's incredibly successful.
Charles Duhigg
#44. 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
#46. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#47. It's also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed.
Arianna Huffington
#48. It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.
Arianna Huffington
#49. I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.
Arianna Huffington
#50. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.
Arianna Huffington
#52. Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
Arianna Huffington
#54. Paul Ryan has become a doormat ... And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.
Arianna Huffington
#56. Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.
Barack Obama
#57. There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.
Arianna Huffington
#58. Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
Arianna Huffington
#59. Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.
Arianna Huffington
#60. The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.
Arianna Huffington
#61. A Hit Of This,' Mr. President? The Huffington Post President Barack Obama had an up-close encounter with Denver's marijuana subculture during a stop in the city on Tuesday night.
Anonymous
#62. It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price - in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.
Arianna Huffington
#63. That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.
Arianna Huffington
#64. In fact, we take much better care of our smartphones than ourselves.
Arianna Huffington
#65. And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes - it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.
Arianna Huffington
#66. I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.
Arianna Huffington
#67. To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.
Mark Feuerstein
#68. Too many of us leave our lives - and, in fact, our souls - behind when we go to work.
Arianna Huffington
#71. When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.
Arianna Huffington
#72. Being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us - including ourselves.
Arianna Huffington
#74. None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
Michael Huffington
#75. 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
#76. We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.
Arianna Huffington
#77. 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
Arianna Huffington
#78. It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Arianna Huffington
#79. 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
#80. I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arianna Huffington
#81. 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
#82. To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.
Arianna Huffington
#83. Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world - while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.
Arianna Huffington
#84. I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.
Arianna Huffington
#85. I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.
Staceyann Chin
#86. Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.
Arianna Huffington
#88. The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
Arianna Huffington
#89. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.
Arianna Huffington
#90. By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.
Arianna Huffington
#91. If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that "Bill O'Reilly is wrong on this" or "here's an opposing view of Bill O'Reilly".
Glenn Beck
#92. 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
#93. While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington
#94. We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.
Arianna Huffington
#95. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#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.
Arianna Huffington
#97. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.
Arianna Huffington
#98. Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.
Arianna Huffington
#99. It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.
Douglas Rushkoff
#100. Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
Arianna Huffington
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