54 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Leadership (LEAN IN)

Top 15 Most Famous Sheryl Sandberg Quotes (BEST)

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. — We cannot **change** what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. — **Fortune** does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. — But the upside of painful **knowledge** is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness. — It is the ultimate **luxury** to combine **passion** and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to **happiness**.

Option A is not available, so let's just kick the shit out of Option B. Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B. — Option A is not available, so let’s just kick the shit out of Option B. Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. — Each one of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.

Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience. People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier. — Finding **gratitude** and **appreciation** is key to **resilience**. People who take the **time** to list things they are grateful for are **happier** and **healthier**.

The easy days ahead of you will be easy. It is the hard days — the times that challenge you to your very core — that will determine who you are.

You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.

Not everything that happens to us happens because of us.

What would you do if you weren't afraid? — What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

25 Inspirational Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Life and Leadership (SUCCESS)

“I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you – yes, you – have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.”
Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. — **Leadership** is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place. — **Leadership** is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. — In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be **leaders**.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. — **Careers** are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. — Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for **disappointment**. Perfection is the enemy.

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. — There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

The ability to **learn** is the most important quality a leader can have.

I learned that in the face of a void or in the face of any challenge, you can choose joy and meaning.

Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.

Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

“You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are — and you just might become the very best version of yourself.”
Sheryl Sandberg

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential. — Being **confident** and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

Not taking failures personally allows us to recover — and even to thrive.

Feeling confident — or pretending that you feel confident — is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliche, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized. — Feeling **confident** — or pretending that you feel confident — is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliche, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Just as our bodies have a physiological immune system, our brains have a psychological immune system — and there are steps you can take to help kick it into gear.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all". Because no matter what any of us has — and how grateful we are for what we have — no one has it all. — I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, “Yes, I have it all”. Because no matter what any of us has — and how grateful we are for what we have — no one has it all.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options. — The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to today’s options.

The best antidote to bad speech is good speech. The best antidote to hate is tolerance. — The best antidote to bad speech is good speech. The best antidote to hate is **tolerance**.

Build resilience in yourselves. When tragedy or disappointment strike, know that you have the ability to get through absolutely anything. I promise you do.

As the saying goes, we are more vulnerable than we ever thought, but we are stronger than we ever imagined.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. — We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking **self-confidence**, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

14 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Relationships and Womanhood (MARRIAGE)

“We find our humanity — our will to live and our ability to love — in our connections to one another. Be there for your family and friends. And I mean in person. Not just in a message with a heart emoji.”
Sheryl Sandberg

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. — When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the **commitment**-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them.

The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner.

Women need to shift from thinking I'm not ready to do that to thinking I want to do that - and I'll learn by doing it. — Women need to shift from thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that – and I’ll **learn** by doing it”.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. — There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

“Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.”
Sheryl Sandberg

When you look at successful women, they have other women who have supported them, and they’ve gotten to where they are because of those women.

When women work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together.

In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. — Until women are as **ambitious** as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results.

Sheryl Kara Sandberg Short Biography

Born on 28 August 1969 in Washington, DC, United States, Sheryl Kara Sandberg is a philanthropist and the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.

Sandberg graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. She went on to receive her master’s in business administration in 1995 from the same university.

In 2001, Sandberg became the general manager of the business unit of Google Inc., where she was responsible for online sales amongst other things.

She met Mark Zuckerberg at a party in 2007, and a year later, she had been offered the position of chief operating officer for Facebook.

Sandberg’s responsibilities for Facebook have been figuring out how to make the social networking site profitable.

In 2010, Sandberg gave a TED speech entitled “Why we have too few women leaders.” In 2012, she became a member of Facebook’s Board of Directors; she was also the first woman to do so.

Sandberg released her book entitled Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead in 2013. The book tackles issues on the lack of women in places like government or leadership roles.

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