Quotes By Author: Sheryl Sandberg

“How we spend our days,” author Annie Dillard writes, is “how we spend our lives.” Rather than waiting until we’re happy to enjoy the small things, we should go and do the small things that make us happy. After a depressing divorce, a friend of mine made a list of things she enjoyed–listening to musicals, seeing her nieces and nephews, looking at art books, eating flan–and made a vow to do one thing on the list after work each day. As blogger Tim Urban describes it, happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.”

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

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

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

“Done is better than perfect.”

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