Arianna Huffington Quotes

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

“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.”

“To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power.”

“Success is not about how much money you make. It is about the difference you make in people's lives.”

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

“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, it is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal, wisdom, wonder, and giving.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“When we believe in something, we got to give it everything we have.”