black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Sheryl Sandberg

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

Business Disappoint Enemy Expectation Inspirational Perfection Try
Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Brave Fortune Inspirational Try Yourself
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Home Success Women
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Best Frustration Perfection Worst
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Difference Life Perspective Work
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Opinion People Thinking Yourself
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
Build your skills, not your resume.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Choice Skill Yourself
We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
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
Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
SHERYL SANDBERG

Issues Life Lose Work
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Enough Inspirational Progress
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
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Company People Value Worth Yourself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes