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“Life is a risk. Life is also punctuated by moments of great risk, and your identity and legacy are shaped by how you respond in those critical moments.”

Life Character Inspiration Purpose Motivation Choices Risk Identity Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Character Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Choices Risk Identity Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Character Inspiration Success Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Risk Advice Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Sit around too long thinking about how to begin and you’ll consume all your provisions while your ship rots in the harbor.”

Life Character Inspiration Action Purpose Motivation Vision Calling Meaning Decisiveness

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”

Life Character Inspiration Action Purpose Motivation Vision Calling Meaning Decisiveness

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“The best way to respond to a hero is to honor him, and the best way to honor a hero is to become a hero yourself.”

Life Character Inspiration Hero Honor Integrity Perseverance Meaning Villain Save

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Life Character Inspiration Motivation Hope Advice Identity Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your identity is formed in part by your past, but only in part, and not the most important part. Your past is merely a starting point.”

Character Inspiration Past Life Lessons Motivation Advice Identity Youth Quote Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your aim is not just what you train your eye on; it is how you train your eye.”

Life Character Inspiration Motivation Vision Advice Identity Quote Seeking Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Only by making your legacy your aim can you ensure that your essential goals, those that stir from your very essence, remain uncorrupted by a million other, lesser goals that constantly vie for your attention.”

Life Character Inspiration Motivation Goal Identity Aim Legacy Meaning Persevere

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“If you wish to leave a legacy, the things you do cannot matter only to you.”

Life Character Inspiration Purpose Motivation Hope Identity Legacy Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A legacy, by definition, must matter to others, because a legacy is something you leave behind—you won’t be here anymore to think it’s important.”

Character Inspiration Life Lessons Motivation Goal Identity Perseverance Legacy Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You and I enjoy a measure of freedom few have ever known, and it was not our blood that purchased it.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Freedom Sacrifice Gratitude Meaning Free Thankfulness

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Our freedom is not a right we have won but a privilege conferred on us by those who sacrificed much that we might have it.”

Life Inspiration Purpose Motivation Freedom Rights Sacrifice Privilege Meaning Free

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“The first thing we are given, life itself, is the privilege of all privileges. Whatever else life brings us, having it at all should fill us with humility and gratitude.”

Life Inspiration Purpose Motivation Hope Advice Humility Gratitude Privilege Meaning

Author:Shawn Davis

“The alternative to a posture of humble gratitude is one of entitlement, which produces thanklessness toward your own blessings and envy toward the blessings of others.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Opportunity Advice Humility Meaning Thankfulness Entitlement

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Wisdom Inspiration Success Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Goal Sacrifice Failure Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Life Wisdom Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Wise Sacrifice Failure Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Life Wisdom Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Wise Sacrifice Failure Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“When answering life's big questions, it doesn’t even matter what you say your answers are; what matters is what you do.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Easy things do not call us to great action, because they are too easy to require great action.”

Life Hard Inspiration Action Purpose Motivation Easy Greatness Choice Reasons

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Life Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Risk Advice Failure Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: 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.”

Life Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Risk Advice Youth Failure Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.”

Inspiration Success Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Advice Youth Failure Quote Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Life is hard because it cannot last, because it must not last. Its very definition is that which lies tenuously between nonexistence and nonexistence.”

Life Inspiration Death Motivation Time Challenges Existence Dying Potential Non Existence

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“We are terrified by this life because it is the only one we know we have, and it is dying from the moment it is birthed.”

Life Inspiration Death Purpose Time Advice Dying Birth Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”

Life Inspiration Purpose Motivation Time Advice Quote Burden Meaning Teen

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

Life Character Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Time Risk Advice Failure

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Learn to mock your influence on the world or wait for the world to do it for you; you won’t have to wait long.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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