The Talk Quotes

“It is the greatest victims who make the greatest villains, and the greatest victims who make the greatest heroes.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“It is no great accomplishment to take care of yourself—I’ve known children of ten or twelve who can do that. To become a true adult, you must become more than independent; you must become dependable.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Goals are, by definition, linked to sacrifices. A goal is a focus, and one cannot have a focus without excluding that which is outside that focus.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Courage is simply the commitment to do the right thing even when it is difficult.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“We can allow life’s tragedies to make us bitter and resentful, or we can see them as tests of our character and humility, allowing them to make us ever thankful, not only for a life but for this very life—for my life and your life.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Imagine living your life so indelibly that others remember your smile long after they’ve forgotten your name!”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Perhaps you are no rock climber, but faced with a big enough rock, you will have to become one.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“It is the greatest victims who make the greatest villains, and the greatest victims who make the greatest heroes.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“It is only when you can admit you may be wrong and are willing to grapple with uncomfortable ideas that you stand to grow.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“If we never risk, we never succeed or fail; if we never succeed or fail, we never grow; and if we never grow, we remain infants forever.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You should neither attempt to justify a bad risk because it turned out well nor regret too much a good risk that turned out badly.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Success and failure are derived not from anything you possess but rather by the things you do. Your successes and failures rest on your actions and your actions alone.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What if we could live a completely meaningless life full of pleasure and devoid of pain? Would we not be happy? Something deep within tells us no.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Entertainment is not necessarily evil, but it is seductive and addictive. It can easily become an end unto itself, an end without end.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You are not special, but you are unique.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A lazy man often lacks the motivation to fight the very thing that has sapped him of his motivation.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your moments of great risk are not yours alone. The decisions you make in those moments are of great import to a great many people—people of great import to you.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Failing to recognize moments of great risk is like dancing in the dark. You may be on solid ground, or you may be twirling at the verge of a precipice—you don’t know.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Life is amply confusing on its own; don’t create confusion where it doesn’t exist. You don’t get to make the world whatever you wish it to be. You don’t get to make yourself whatever you wish to be.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Learn to recognize useless guides without getting sanctimonious about it. There are good reasons there are bad adults; be thankful you are ignorant of a great many of them.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Not everything put into you is good or right, but it is good enough, and it is all important.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A hero helps you resolve the tragedy of your existence in a world that owes you nothing, not by destroying the obstacles you face but by showing you how to take them on with integrity.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions