Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

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

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

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

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

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

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

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.

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.

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

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

Done is better than perfect.

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

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

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

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

Build your skills, not your resume.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.

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.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

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

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

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

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

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

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

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

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

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