Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Home

• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

• I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Heart, Past, Thinking

  "Sheryl Sandberg Offers Grieving Guidance, Calls for Support Systems After Husband's Death" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2015.

• I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Teacher, Real

  "'Now Is Our Time'". Harvard Business Review interview, hbr.org. April 2013.

• For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Grandmother

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

• Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Home, Responsibility

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

• 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

  Careers, Choices, Way

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.136, Knopf

• If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Choices, Would Be, Definitions

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.149, Knopf

• We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Choices, Failing, Personal Choice

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

• I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Home

• There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Children, Giving Up

  "Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author And Facebook COO, On The Biggest Mistakes Working Women Make". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Accomplishment, Choices

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