Top 250 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Each one of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

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202. “Second, I try to set more personal goals for learning new skills in the next eighteen months.”

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203. “As Gloria Steinem observed, “Whoever has power takes over the noun – and the norm – while the less powerful get an adjective.”

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204. “I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.”

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

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206. “Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don’t, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.”

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207. “I probably shouldn’t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.”

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208. “And what I saw happening is that women don’t make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.”

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209. “I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.”

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210. “When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, “Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths,” Dweck recommends, “The feeling of math being hard is the feeling of your brain growing.”

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211. “We can joke, as Marlo Thomas did, that “a man has to be Joe McCarthy in order to be called ruthless. All a woman needs to do is put you on hold.” Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few. If women held 50 percent of the top jobs, it would just not be possible to dislike that many people.”

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212. “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.”

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213. “Self-compassion comes from recognizing that our imperfections are part of being human.”

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214. “Men have an easier time finding the mentors and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression. Plus, women have to prove themselves to a far greater extent than men do. And this is not just in our heads. A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.”

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215. “Self-compassion isn’t talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it’s often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence. Psychologist Kristin Neff describes self-compassion as offering the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to a friend. It allows us t respond to our own errors with conern and understanding rather than criticism and shame.”

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216. “Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.”

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217. “When I was on the other side, my reply became, “I can’t imagine either, but I have no choice.” I.”

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218. “I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.”

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219. “Most people, myself included, really want to be liked – and not just because it feels good. Being liked is also a key factor in both professional and personal success. A willingness to make an introduction or advocate for or promote someone depends upon having positive feelings about that person. We need to believe in her ability to do the job and get along with everyone while doing it. That’s why, instinctively, many of us feel pressure to mute our accomplishments.”

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220. “When someone isn’t making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if that person is the boss. One.”

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221. “When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter. They see that others care and want to be there for them. They understand that they are not alone and can gain some control by reaching out for support. They realize that pain is not permanent; things can get better.”

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222. “Of the twenty-eight women who have served as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, twenty-six were married, one was divorced, and only one had never married.10 Many of these CEOs said they “could not have succeeded without the support of their husbands, helping with the children, the household chores, and showing a willingness to move.”11.”

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223. “We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.”

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224. “Self-compassion isn’t talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it’s often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence.”

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225. “I would be better at my job if I were technical.”

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226. “Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.”

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227. “All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.”

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228. “In order to protect ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.”

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229. “When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.” After.”

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230. “We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.”

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231. “Now the stress dream was real. I was alone in my bed. Alone when my kids went on playdates. Just one hour in my house without them made me project into the future to when they would go off to college, leaving me behind. Would I be alone for the rest of my life? Marne.”

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232. “Even people who have endured the worst suffering often want to talk about it.”

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233. “The two things we want to know when we’re in pain are that we’re not crazy to feel the way we do and that we have support.”

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234. “A woman, if you’re Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that’s an embarrassing thing. Or something that’s not considered attractive, and I think that’s what we need to change.”

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235. “When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter.”

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236. “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.”

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237. “Believing it will all work out helps it all work out.” A.”

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238. “In prosperity our friends know us. In adversity we know our friends.”

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239. “She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.”

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240. “To really care about others, we have to understand them – what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recognizing the role emotions play and being willing to discuss them makes us better managers, partners, and peers.”

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241. “When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is “not well-liked by her peers.” She is probably also “too aggressive,” “not a team player,” “a bit political,” “can’t be trusted,” or “difficult.”

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242. “We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself.”

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243. “When Gloria Steinem marched in the streets to fight for the opportunities that so many of us now take for granted, she quoted Susan B. Anthony, who marched in the streets before her and concluded, “Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going.”27 The sentiment remains true today. We need to be grateful for what we have but dissatisfied with the status quo. This dissatisfaction spurs the charge for change. We must keep going.”

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244. “Professor Rosalind Chait Barnett of Brandeis University did a comprehensive review of studies on work-life balance and found that women who participate in multiple roles 36 actually have lower levels of anxiety and higher levels of mental well-being. Employed women reap rewards including greater financial security, more stable marriages, better health, and, in general, 37 increased life satisfaction.”

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245. “I’m excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don’t want men to want equality for women because they’re being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it’s better for their companies and their lives.”

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246. “When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.”

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247. “Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.”

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248. “If friends didn’t ask how I was doing, did that mean they didn’t care?”

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249. “As the worst of the grief faded, I had to restore balance in my friendships so they weren’t one-sided.”

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250. “In my experience, survivors want the opportunity to teach and not be shunned because they went through something unknowable,” Merle said.”

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