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- "When I was a youngster a popular song was “Paddle your own Canoe,” with the refrain
'Never sit down with a tear or a frown but paddle your own Canoe.'
"This was meant as giving guidance to going through life - and very good too. In my picture of you, you are paddling your canoe, not rowing a boat. The difference is that in the one you are looking ahead and sending yourself along all the time, while in the other you are not looking the way you are going but trusting to the steering of others, and consequently you may bump into snags before you know where you are. Lots of fellows try to row through life in that way. Lots more prefer to sail passively and to be carried along by the wind of luck or the current of chance; it is easier than rowing - and quite as fatal. Give me the fellow who looks ahead and actively paddles his own canoe - i.e. shapes his own course. Paddle your own canoe; don’t rely upon other people to row your boat. You are starting out on an adventurous voyage from the stream of childhood, along the river of adolescence, out across the ocean of manhood to the port you want to reach." (en)
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