Shawn Davis > 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

“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

“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

“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

“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”
― 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

“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

“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”
― 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

“Spend your life chasing justice and only one thing is certain: You will have spent your life.”
― 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

“There are many injustices that will simply never be made right, and to expect otherwise is to set yourself up to be consumed by frustration.”
― 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

“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

“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

“When everyone we know is a king or a queen, it is easy not to notice each other’s crowns, except when it benefits our self-pity or vanity to compare them.”
― 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

“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

“When you label yourself a victim, you compel those around you to pay homage to your victimhood. Don’t do that.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Don’t fear high expectations; embrace them. Choose to do hard things.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You are granted opportunity, through no effort of your own and that you therefore do not deserve, that has been granted to only a tiny fraction of those who have ever lived.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“To expect a hospitable world is hubris. Instead, expect the opposite. Expect a world that may destroy you at its whim at any moment.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Wallowing in victimhood only demeans and paralyzes you. Don’t do it. Redeem it instead. Transcend it instead.”
― 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

“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

“There are people around the world who would risk their lives, who are currently risking their lives, for a tiny fraction of the opportunity you have obtained simply by virtue of having been born here and not there. You have been given a precious gift. Do not squander it.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Wisdom is found in nature only by mining a lot of rock.”
― 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