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

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"When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Love

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Awareness

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Balance

"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Happiness

"Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Integrity

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition