black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

Sheryl Sandberg

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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Success Yourself
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Opinion People Thinking Yourself
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Authentic Believe Change Connection Myself People
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Care Motivation People Work
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Dream Hard Work Myself People
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
SHERYL SANDBERG

Appearance Choice Weird
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Happiness Inspiartional Luxury Passion Path Success
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Work
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Home Success Women
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes