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Arianna Huffington – Coaching Quotes and Tips

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Career Advice Quotes by 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.”

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

“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.”

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

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

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

“Sleep deprivation is the new smoking.”

“I see some people stay in one place because it’s convenient or it’s comfortable. But they’re missing out on their passion,”


Business Advice Quotes by 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.”

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

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”

“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.”

“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.”


Leadership Advice Quotes by Arianna Huffington

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My ritual is to turn off all my devices 30 minutes before I’m going to go to sleep and charge them outside my room.”


Arianna Huffington Biography

Arianna Huffington (born 1950) is a Greek-American author, columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder, and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She serves on numerous boards.

Huffington launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site in 2005. She launched Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform, in 2016. She has been named to Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.


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“Sleep deprivation is the new smoking.”

– Arianna Huffington

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

– Arianna Huffington

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– Arianna Huffington

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