Top 250 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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2. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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3. “Build your skills not your resume.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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4. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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5. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

6. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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7. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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8. “Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

9. “Don’t be afraid to ask the ‘dumb’ question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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10. “Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

11. “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

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12. “Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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13. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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14. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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15. “If you are pleasing everyone, you are not making enough progress.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

16. “Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

18. “The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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19. “I’ve seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that’s why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there – and yes, this still happens to me. And when I’m not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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20. “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

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22. “If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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23. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

24. “Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

26. “The path to change is best traveled when we travel together.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

27. “The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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28. “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

29. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

30. “The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to today’s options.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

31. “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

32. “Excel and you will get a mentor.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

33. “Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

35. “Nobody can succeed on their own.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

37. “Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

38. “Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

39. “When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

41. “The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

42. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

43. “Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

44. “The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

45. “Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

46. “I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

48. “No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

50. “Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don’t veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.”

— Sheryl Sandberg