第一篇：名人名校勵志演講

名人名校勵志演講：夢想與責任---奧巴馬對美國學生的全國講話 中英演講稿

國總統奧巴馬2009年9月8日開學演講 英文全文

For Immediate Release September 8, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT

IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDREN

Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia

THE PRESIDENT:

Hello, everybody!Thank you.Thank you.Thank you, everybody.All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat.How is everybody doing today?(Applause.)How about Tim Spicer?(Applause.)I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade.And I am just so glad that all could join us today.And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host.Give yourselves a big round of applause.(Applause.)

大家好！謝謝你們。謝謝你們。謝謝你們大家。好，大家請就坐。你們今天都好嗎？（掌聲）蒂姆?斯派塞（Tim Spicer）好嗎？（掌聲）我現在與弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起。美國各地從小學預備班到中學12年級的學生正在收聽收看。我很高興大家今天都能參與。我還要感謝韋克菲爾德高中出色的組織安排。請為你們自己熱烈鼓掌。（掌聲）

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school.And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous.I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now--(applause)--with just one more year to go.And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.我知道，今天是你們很多人開學的日子。對于進入小學預備班、初中或高中的學生，今天是你們來到新學校的第一天，心里可能有點緊張，這是可以理解的。我能想象有些畢業班學生現在感覺很不錯——（掌聲）——還有一年就畢業了。不論在哪個年級，你們有些人可能希望暑假更長一點，今天早上還能多睡一小會兒。

I know that feeling.When I was young, my family lived overseas.I lived in Indonesia for a few years.And my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education.So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday.But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.我了解這種感覺。我小時候，我們家生活在海外。我在印度尼西亞住了幾年。我媽媽沒有錢送我上其他美國孩子上的學校，但她認為必須讓我接受美式教育。因此，她決定從周一到周五自己給我補課。不過她還要上班，所以只能在清晨四點半給我上課。

Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early.And a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table.But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)

你們可以想見，我不太情愿那么早起床。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡著了。但每當我抱怨的時候，我媽媽都會那樣地看我一眼，然后說：“小子，這對我也并不輕松。（笑聲）

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So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school.But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you.I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.我知道你們有些人還在適應開學后的生活。但我今天來到這里是因為有重要的事情要和你們說。我來這里是要和你們談談你們的教育問題，以及在這個新學年對你們所有人的期望。

Now, I’ve given a lot of speeches about education.And I’ve talked about responsibility a lot.我做過很多次有關教育問題的演講。我多次談到過責任問題。

I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.我談到過教師激勵學生并督促他們學習的責任。

I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox.我談到過家長的責任，要確保你們走正路，完成家庭作業，不要整天坐在電視前或玩Xbox游戲。

I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’t getting the opportunities that they deserve.我多次談到過政府的責任，要制定高標準，支持教師和校長的工作，徹底改善不能為學生提供應有機會的、教育質量差的學校。

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world--and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.That’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.然而，即使我們擁有最敬業的教師，最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學校——如果你們大家不履行你們的責任，不到校上課，不專心聽講，不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話，不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力，那么這一切都毫無用處，都無關緊要。這就是我今天講話的重點：你們每個人對自己的教育應盡的責任。

I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.Every single one of you has something that you’re good at.Every single one of you has something to offer.And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.That’s the opportunity an education can provide.我首先要講講你們對自己應盡的責任。你們每個人都有自己的長處。你們每個人都能做出自己的貢獻。你們對自己應盡的責任是發現自己的能力所在。而教育能夠提供這樣的機會。

Maybe you could be a great writer--maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper--but you might not know it until you write that English paper--that English class paper that’s assigned to you.Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor--maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine--but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class.Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice--but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.你或許能成為一名出色的作家——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會發現自己的才華。你或許能成為一名創新者或發明家——甚至可能設計出新一代iPhone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科學課的實驗后才會發現自己的才華。你或許能成為一名市長或參議員或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在參加學生會的工作或辯論隊后才會發現自己的才華。

And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it.You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse

這些都沒關系。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。作者J?K?羅琳（J.K.Rowling）所寫的系列小說《哈利?波特》（Harry Potter）第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。邁克爾?喬丹（Michael Jordan）曾被他的高中籃球隊除名。在喬丹的籃球生涯中，他輸過數百場比賽，有成千上萬個球沒有投中。但他曾說過：“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次。這就是我成功的原因。”

These people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failures define you--you have to let your failures teach you.You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time.So if you get into trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right.If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.這些人士獲得成功，因為他們懂得：你不能讓失敗來限制你，而必須讓失敗來開導你。你必須讓失敗向你展示下次如何以不同的方式去做這件事情。因此，如果你遇到麻煩，那并不表示你是麻煩的制造者，而意味著你需要更加努力去把它做對。如果你有一門課分數低，那不表示你比別人笨，而只表示你需要花更多的時間學習。

No one’s born being good at all things.You become good at things through hard work.You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport.You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song.You’ve got to practice.The same principle applies to your schoolwork.You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right.You might have to read something a few times before you understand it.You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.沒有一個人天生擅長做各種事情。你通過勤奮而變得擅長于各種事情。第一次從事新的體育項目時，你不可能是一位主力隊員。第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準每個音。你必須練習。同樣的道理適用于你的學業。你可能要把一道數學題做幾次才把它做對。你可能要把一些材料閱讀幾遍才能理解。在交出一篇優美的作文之前，你肯定需要打幾遍草稿。

Don’t be afraid to ask questions.Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it.I do that every day.Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new.So find an adult that you trust--a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor--and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.不要害怕提問。不要在需要幫助時害怕請求別人幫助。我天天請求別人的幫助。請求幫助不是軟弱的表現，它是力量的標志，因為它表明你有勇氣承認自己對某些事情不懂，這樣做會使你學到新的東西。因此，請確定一位你信任的成年人，例如家長、祖父母或老師、教練或輔導員，請他們幫助你遵循既定計劃實現你的目標。

And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.即使當你苦苦掙扎、灰心喪氣、感到其他人對你不抱希望時，也不要對你自己喪失信心，因為當你自暴自棄時，你也拋棄了自己的國家。

The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough.It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.書寫美國歷史的不是在困難時刻退縮的人，而是堅持不懈、加倍努力的人，他們對國家的愛促使他們全力以赴。

It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation.Young people.Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war;who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon.Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.書寫美國歷史的是250年前坐在你們的位置上的學生，他們后來進行了獨立戰爭并創建了這個國家。還有75年前坐在你們的位置上的年輕人和學生，他們走出了大蕭條并打贏了一場世界大戰；他們為民權而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。至于20年前坐在你們的位置上的學生，他們創辦了谷歌（Google）、嘰喳網（Twitter）和臉譜網（Facebook），改變了我們交流溝通的方式。

So today, I want to ask all of you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? 而今天，我要問問你們大家，你們將做出什么貢獻？你們將解決什么問題？你們將有什么發現？20年、50年或100年后來到這里講話的總統將會怎樣評價你們大家為這個國家所做的一切？

Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions.I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn.But you’ve got to do your part, too.So I expect all of you to get serious this year.I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do.I expect great things from each of you.So don’t let us down.Don’t let your family down or your country down.Most of all, don’t let yourself down.Make us all proud.你們的家人、你們的老師和我正在竭盡全力保證你們接受必要的教育，以便回答上述問題。我正在努力工作，以便你們的教室得到修繕，你們能夠得到學習所需的課本、設備和電腦。但你們也必須盡自己的努力。因此，我希望你們大家從今年起認真對待這個問題。我希望你們盡最大努力做好每一件事。我希望你們每個人都有出色的表現。不要讓我們失望。不要讓你們的家人或你們的國家失望。而最重要的是，不要辜負你們自己，而要讓我們都能[為你們]感到驕傲。

Thank you very much, everybody.God bless you.God bless America.Thank you.(Applause.)非常感謝你們大家。愿主保佑你們。愿主保佑美國。謝謝你們。（掌聲）

第二篇：名人勵志演講

篇一：名人勵志演講

? 福布斯中文網日前列出歷年來多位億萬富豪在畢業典禮上所做演講的節選 ? 史蒂夫 喬布斯(steve jobs)：把每一天都當成生命中的最后一天

? 在我17歲的時候，我讀到了一句箴言，差不多是這樣的：“如果你把每一天都當作生命中的最后一天去生活的話，那么終有一天你會發現自己是正確的。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象，從那時算起的33年以來，我每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我還會做自己今天即將要做的事嗎？”當答案連續多次都是“不”時，我就知道自己需要做些改變了。——斯坦福大學，2005年 ? 比爾蓋茨

? 比爾 蓋茨(bill gates)：你的能力越大，人們對你的期望也就越大

? 我的母親在我被哈佛大學錄取的那一天曾經感到非常驕傲，她從沒有停止督促我去為他人做更多的事情。在我結婚的前幾天，她主持了一個新娘進我家的儀式。在這個儀式上，她高聲朗讀了一封關于婚姻的信，這是她寫給梅琳達(melinda)的。那時，我的母親已經因為癌癥病入膏肓，但是她還是認為這是又一個傳播自己信念的機會。在那封信的結尾，她寫道：“你的能力越大，人們對你的期望也就越大。”——哈佛大學，2007年 ? 奧普拉溫弗瑞

? 奧普拉 溫弗瑞(oprah winfrey)：我們所有人時不時都需要化化妝。

? 在生活中，我們所有人時不時都需要化化妝。同學們，我清楚這一點，如果你們能看到改變自己人生的可能性，如果你們能看到自己可以成為怎樣的人而不是原本的面貌，那么你們將獲得巨大的成功。——杜克大學，2009年

? 邁克爾 戴爾(michael dell)：永遠不要當房間里最聰明的那個人 ? 永遠不要嘗試成為房間里最聰明的那個人，如果你是的話，我建議你請來一位更聰明的??或者自己換個不同的房間。在職場中，這叫做人際關系。在組織中，這叫做隊伍建設。在生活中，這被稱為家庭、朋友和圈子。我們都是彼此的禮物，在我成長為一名領導者的過程中，我得到的啟示一遍遍地重復，即最有益的經驗是來自人與人之間的關系。——得克薩斯大學，2003年

? 邁克爾 布隆伯格：保持樂觀，別消沉太久 ? 我離開學校后在華爾街找到了第一份工作，我一直在那兒工作了15年。那是一段不錯的歷程，有快樂的時光，也有很多老板們對我的稱贊。每個人都喜歡我，直到他們炒我魷魚的那一天！不過，我仍然保持著樂觀，因為幸福對我來說一直是走出去以及嘗試戰勝種種困難。所以，在被解雇后的第二天——真的就是第二天——我創辦了一家新的公司。——塔夫斯大學，2007年

永遠不要嘗試成為房間里最聰明的那個人，如果你是的話，我建議你請來一位更聰明的??或者自己換個不同的房間。在職場中，這叫做人際關系。在組織中，這叫做隊伍建設。在生活中，這被稱為家庭、朋友和圈子。我們都是彼此的禮物，在我成長為一名領導者的過程中，我得到的啟示一遍遍地重復，即最有益的經驗是來自人與人之間的關系。——得克薩斯大學，2003年

? j.k．羅琳(jk rowling)：失敗乃成功之母

? 那么，我為什么要談論失敗的好處呢？因為失敗意味著剝離掉那些不必要的東西。我因此不再偽裝自己、遠離自我，而重新開始把所有精力放在對我最重要的事情上。如果不是沒有在其他領域成功過，我可能就不會在一個我確信真正屬于的舞臺上找到取得成功的決心。我獲得了自由，因為最害怕的雖然已經發生了，但我還活著，我仍然有一個我深愛的女兒，我還有一臺舊打字機和一個很大的想法。所以，困境的谷底成為了我重建生活的堅實基礎。——哈佛大學，2008年 ? 杰夫 貝索斯：天賦得來很容易，而選擇卻頗為艱難 ? 我斗膽做一個預測：在你們80歲時某個追憶往昔的時刻，當你一個人靜靜地對內心訴說自己的人生故事，其中最為充實、最有意義的那段講述會被你們作出的一系列決定所填滿。最后，是選擇塑造了我們的人生。為你自己塑造一個偉大的人生故事吧。——普林斯頓大學，2010年

? 馬克 扎克伯格：如果你喜歡自己做的事，事情會容易很多

? 當你回家吃飯，盤子里是最難吃的蔬菜，如果你愿意可以勉強自己吃下去。但如果你是玩游戲，即使非常難，只要自己喜歡，你也會努力通關。如果你喜歡自己做的事，事情會容易很多，而你也將擁有更大的決心。——加州門羅公園貝拉港社區學校，2011年 ? 史蒂夫 鮑爾默(steve ballmer)：不要激情，要有韌性

? 激情是對某件事物產生興奮的能力，而控制力和韌性則是保持這種興奮的能力。如果你考察一下我們這個行業的那些創業公司，你會發現它們大多數都失敗了。如果你再考察一下那些獲得成功的公司，比如微軟、蘋果、谷歌以及facebook，凡是你能叫出名字的，它們都經歷過困難時期。你取得了一些成功，你也撞了幾回南墻，你為新的點子和創新嘗試新的途徑，但未能成功，這時候決定事業成敗的就是，你有多頑強，你有多大的控制力，你有多樂觀以及你有多少韌性。——南加州大學，2011年

? 拉里 佩奇(larry page)：追尋偉大的夢想，你不會遇到競爭

? 我認為，追尋雄心萬丈的夢想通常更加容易，我知道這聽起來完全是一派胡言。不過，既然沒有別的人瘋狂到會做這件事情，你就沒有競爭對手了。達到這種瘋狂程度的人是如此之少，以至于我感覺自己跟他們都認識。他們像狗群一樣漫游，像膠水一樣相互親近，這些最優秀的人樂于接受艱巨的挑戰，這就是在谷歌發生的事情。——密歇根大學，2009年 ? 埃里克 施密特(eric schmidt)：不要刻意制定計劃

? 不要刻意制定計劃，那些有關計劃的東西，你們可以扔掉了。在我看來，一切都關乎機遇和爭取到自己的運氣。如果你觀察那些最成功的人士，你會發現，他們工作努力并充分利用了機遇，但他們并不知道那些機遇會降臨到自己頭上。你無法為創新制定計劃，你也無法為發明制定計劃。你所能做的就是，盡自己最大的努力呆在正確的地方，并隨時準備著。——卡內基-梅隆大學，2009年

? 埃里 布羅德(eli broad)：膽小成不了大事

? 從沒有一個人是靠著小心翼翼、羞怯或講道理賺到百萬美元財富的。在我產生放棄注冊會計師的職業生涯而成為住房建筑商的瘋狂念頭時，我才22歲并剛剛結婚，并且對建筑一竅不通。但有時候，最瘋狂的想法能夠帶來最豐厚的回報。1953年，我冒險開始建造不帶地下室的住宅樓——這在中西部是史無前例的——因為這種住宅的月供要比大多數人所付的房租更低。——加州大學洛杉磯分校藝術和建筑學院，2006年 ? 皮埃爾 奧米迪亞(pierre omidyar)：有備無患

? 要真正做到有備無患，你需要調整定位來制定一些備選方案，這樣當機會之門洞開時，你就能近水樓臺先得月。在很大程度上，生活跟軟件程序一樣都是線性的。我們都面對著這樣一種誘惑，即把過去定格并投射到未來當中。但未來并不總是沿著一條直線發展，所以，作為一名軟件工程師，你要學會在設計中融入一定的靈活性：避免被單一的解決方案局限，建立一個適用于多種用途的平臺。——塔夫斯大學，2002年 ? 老羅斯 佩羅(ross perot, sr。)：制定你的十年規劃

? 你們這一代人比上代人有更多的十年用來規劃，你們很多人應該預期自己在八九十歲時仍然擁有生產力。當你們到達那個點時，我建議你們想一想怎樣為國家服務，以及怎樣回饋社會。而在20歲出頭時，我建議你們去周游和探索這個世界，去認識這個星球的居民并表達對他們的敬意。去冒險吧，去認識你自己，發現你自己真正的激情所在，然后，我希望你們把學到的東西都帶回來。——南衛理公會大學，2006年

? 特德 特納(ted turner)：早睡早起，拼命工作，并且極力宣傳 ? 當我被反復問及，?你的成功秘訣是什么？?我都會這樣回答：“早睡早起，拼命工作，并且極力宣傳。”——蒙大拿州立大學北分校，2011年

? 雷德 霍夫曼(reid hoffman)：逆勢而動，做正確的事

? 始終進行創造性和大膽的思考，你在哪里可以看到一個巨大的機會？你覺得哪些事物將發生變化？你能看到哪些別人看不到的東西？成為一名成功的企業家，部分訣竅在于逆勢而動并且做正確的事。這兩者特別重要，因為如果大家都看到沒有市場機會，那你逆勢而為就不存在阻礙，但接著你必須確保自己的判斷是正確的。——加州大學伯克利分校信息技術學院，2011年篇二：影響你一生的名人勵志演講

影響你一生的名人勵志演講(視頻+mp3+演講稿)--英語演講專題 kira86 于2012-01-11發布 l 已有6383人瀏覽 我要評論(0)| 英語專題 | 【字體：小大】 | 我要投稿 女性時尚生活雜志,免費閱讀百度搜索原版英語可以找到本站

《影響你一生的名人勵志演講》收錄了19篇英語演講，演講者來自政治、經濟、文化等各個領域。本書共分為五章，分別為國家領袖、政治人物、商界精英、作家記者和娛樂名人。精選出的這些演講名篇題材涉獵廣泛、風格迥異，有的氣勢恢宏，意蘊精深；有的輕松詼諧，令人捧腹；有的言辭懇切，語重心長。它們都有一個共同點：演講者或立足于時代背景下或從個人自身經歷出發，鼓舞人奮發向上、積極進取，做出個人應有的成績，為時代、為國家做貢獻。本書配有原版音頻，讓你最近距離感受這些最具影響力的聲音。

國家領袖

夢想與責任——巴拉克·奧巴馬（>>查看演講視頻及雙語演講稿）

and even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.即使當你苦苦掙扎、灰心喪氣、感到其他人對你放棄時，也不要放棄自己，因為當你放棄自己時，你也拋棄了自己的國家。must be strong 我們必須強大——威廉·杰斐遜·克林頓

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself 我們唯一害怕的是害怕本身——富蘭克林·羅斯福（>>查看演講音頻及演講稿中英對照）

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, ueasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.我們唯一害怕的 是害怕本身——這種難以名狀、失去理智和毫無道理的恐懼，把人轉退為進所需的種種努力化為泡影。

i am prepared to die for an ideal 為理想我愿獻出生命——納爾遜·曼德拉（>>查看演講音頻及演講稿中英對照）i have fought against white domination, and i have fought against black domination.i have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities.it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to see realized.but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die.我反對白人統治，也反對黑人統治。我珍視民主和自由社會的理想，在這個社會中，人人和睦相處，機會均等。我希望為這個理想而生，并希望能實現這個理想。但是如果需要，為理想我愿獻出生命。

we choose to go to the moon（>>查看演講視頻及英文演講稿）我們選擇登月——約翰·肯尼迪

the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.我們學到的知識越多，認識到的無知就越多。

never tiring, never yielding, never finishing 永不疲憊，永不氣餒，永不完竭——喬治·布什

never tiring, never yielding, neverfinishing, we renew that purpose today;to make our country more just and generous;to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.永 不疲憊，永不氣餒，永不完竭，今天我們重樹這樣的目標：使我們的國家變得更加公正、更加慷慨，去體現我們每個人和所有人生命的尊嚴。

政治人物

i have a dream（>>查看演講音頻及英文演講稿）我有一個夢想——馬丁·路德·金

let us not wallow in the valley of despair, i say to you today, my friends.and so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream.it is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream.朋友們，今天我要對你們說，千萬不要沉淪在絕望的深谷里。盡管眼下困難重重，但我依然懷有一個夢想。這個夢想深深植根于美國夢之中。

i quit, but i will continue the fight 我放棄了，但我會繼續戰斗——希拉里·克林頓

on the day we live in an america where no child, no man, and no woman is without health insurance, we will live in a stronger america.that’s why we need to help elect barack obama our president.當我們有朝一日居住在一個讓每個孩子、每個男人、每個女人都享有醫療保障的美國時，我們便擁有了一個更強大的美國。這就是為什么我們要幫助巴拉克·奧巴馬競選總統職位。

building the foundations for success 為成功做好準備——安妮·德·薩里斯

knowing who we are and being confident enough to do what matters to us — that’s what counts.了解自己，滿懷自信，做好我們認為重要的事情，這才是最重要的。let’s elect barack obama president of usa 讓我們選舉巴拉克·奧巴馬為美利堅合眾國總統——米歇爾·奧巴馬 商界精英

unleashing your creativity（>>查看演講稿中英文對照）釋放你的創造力——比爾·蓋茨

and i believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, were going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.我相信，憑借人類與生俱來的發明創造能力和不畏艱難、堅韌不拔的品格，在我的有生之年里我們將在所有這些領域都創造出可喜的成就。grab your dreams when it shows up 當夢想來臨時抓住它——拉里·佩奇

overall, i know it seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it.dont give up on your dreams.the world needs you all!總而言之，我知道這個世界看起來已支離破碎，但這確實是你們人生中一個偉大的時代，你們可以瘋狂一點，追隨你們的好奇心，積極進取。不要放棄夢想。世界需要你們。

we are what we choose（>>查看演講稿視頻及雙語演講稿）選擇塑造人生——杰夫·貝索斯

cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.gifts are easy — theyre given after all.choices can be hard.you can seduce yourself with your gifts if youre not careful, and if you do, itll probably be to the detriment of your choices.聰明是一種天賦，而善良是 一種選擇。天賦得來很容易——畢竟它們與生俱來。而選擇卻頗為艱難。如果一不小心，你可能被天賦所誘惑，這可能會損害到你做出的選擇。

作家記者

the spirit of man 人類的精神——威廉·福克納

tribute to diana（>>查看英文演講稿）致戴安娜——查爾斯·斯賓塞

在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、責任心、風度和美麗的化身，是無私和人道的象征，是維護真正被踐踏的權益的旗手，是一個超越國界的英國女孩，是一個帶有自然的高貴氣質的人，是一個不分階層的人。

follow your bliss, follow your heart（>>查看演講音頻及英文演講稿）追隨你的幸福,傾聽你的心聲——安德森·庫珀

but it actually was the best thing that ever happened to me.i decided that if no one would give me a chance, i’d have to take a chance, and if no one would give me an opportunity, i would have to create my own opportunity.但這次失敗卻成了我人生中最有價值的經歷。我下定決心，如果沒人給我機會，我就自己尋找機會；如果沒人給我機會，我就自己創造機會。

娛樂名人failure is an option, but fear is not（>>查看演講視頻及演講稿中英雙語對照）

失敗是一個選項，但畏懼不是——詹姆斯·卡梅隆 so, thats the thought i would leave you with, is that in whatever youre doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.所以，這是我想給你的想法，不管你做什么，失敗是 一個選項，但畏懼不是。

feelings, failure and finding happiness(點我去查看奧普拉演講視頻和雙語演講稿)感覺、失敗及尋找幸福——奧普拉·溫弗瑞

——美國著名電視節目主持人奧普拉·溫弗瑞2008年在斯坦福大學畢業典禮上發表的演講

1、奧斯特洛夫斯基

命運對奧斯特洛夫斯基是殘酷的：他念過三年小學，青春消逝在疾馳的戰馬與槍林彈雨中。16歲時，他腹部與頭部嚴重負傷，右眼失明。20歲時，又因關節硬化而臥床不起。面對著命運的嚴峻挑戰，他深切地感到：“在生活中沒比掉隊更可怕的事情了。”奧斯特洛夫斯基與命運進行了英勇的抗爭：他不想躺在殘廢榮譽軍人的功勞簿上向祖國和人民伸手，他用沸騰的精力讀完了函授大學的全部課程，如饑似渴地閱讀俄羅斯與世界文學名著。書籍召喚他前進，書籍陪伴他披荊斬棘。

奧斯特洛夫斯基思想的烈馬，馳騁在烏克蘭與波蘭交界的遼闊的原野上，他口授的每一個字母都像無情的子彈，射向入侵的德國強盜。2.張海迪 1955年秋天在濟南出生。5歲患脊髓病，胸以下全部癱瘓。從那時起，張海迪開始了她獨到的人生。她無法上學，便在在家自學完中學課程。在殘酷的命運挑戰面前，張海迪沒有沮喪和沉淪，她以頑強的毅力和恒心與疾病做斗爭，經受了嚴峻的考驗，對人生充滿了信心。她雖然沒有機會走進校門，卻發憤學習，學完了小學、中學全部課程，自學了大學英語、日語、德語和世界語，并攻讀了大學和碩士研究生的課程。為了對社會作出更大的貢獻，她先后自學了十幾種醫學專著，同時向有經驗的醫生請教，學會了針灸等醫術，為群眾無償治療達1萬多人次。

我們都是四肢健全的人，所以更我們應該珍惜眼前的學習機會。3.愛迪生

在愛迪生發明燈泡的時候他失敗了很多次，當他用到一千多種材料做燈絲的時候，助手對他說：“你已經失敗了一千多次了，成功已經變得渺茫，還是放棄吧！”但愛迪生卻說：“到現在我的收獲還不錯，起碼我發現有一千多種材料不能做燈絲。”最后，他經過六千多次的實驗終于成功了。

我們可以試想，如果愛迪生在助手勸他停止實驗的時候放棄了，我們現在會怎么樣呢？可能我們還要點只有豆粒般大小的油燈在夜里照明。其實愛迪生的每次試驗失敗都可以看作是挫折。這么一算，愛迪生發明電燈也就是遇上了六千多次的挫折，這是一個多么驚人的數目啊！4.林肯

生下來就一貧如洗的林肯，終其一生都在面對挫敗，八次競選八次落敗，兩次經商失敗，甚至還精神崩潰過一次。好多次，他本可以放棄，但他并沒有如此，也正因為 他沒有放棄，才成為美國歷史上最偉大的總統之一。此路艱辛而泥濘。我一只腳滑了一下，另一只腳也因而站不穩;但我緩口氣，告訴自己，這不過是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬不起來。——林肯在競選參議員落敗后如是說

我們有的時候受到一次挫折，或經受到一次失敗，就灰心喪氣，認為自己一無是處，看看愛迪生和林肯，我們就會明白人的一生不是一帆風順的，關鍵是學會堅持，永不放棄。4.霍金

隨著年齡漸長，小霍金對萬事萬物如何運行開始感興趣起來，他經常把東西拆散以追根究底，但在把它們恢復組裝回去時，他卻束手無策，不過，他的父母并沒有因此而責罰他，他的父親甚至給他擔任起數學和物理學“教練”。在十三四歲時，霍金發現自己對物理學方面的研究非常有興趣，雖然中學物理學太容易太淺顯，顯得特別枯燥，但他認為這是最基礎的科學，有望解決人們從何處來和為何在這里的問題。從此，霍金開始了真正的科學探索。，如饑似渴的投入到學習和研究當中，并最終成為一代大師，給不看好他的人當頭棒喝。

霍金雖然身體的殘疾越來越重，但卻力圖像普通人一樣生活，完成自己所能做的任何事情。他甚至是活潑好動的——這聽起來有些好笑，在他已經完全無法移動之后，他仍然堅持用唯一可以活動的手指驅動著輪椅在前往辦公室的路上“橫沖直撞”；·威廉·霍金認為他一生的貢獻是在經典物理的框架里，證明了黑洞和大爆炸奇點的不可避免性，黑洞越變越大；但在量子物理的框架里，他指出，黑洞因輻射而越變越小，大爆炸的奇點不斷被量子效應所抹平，而且整個宇宙正是起始于此。

第三篇：名人勵志演講

? 福布斯中文網日前列出歷年來多位億萬富豪在畢業典禮上所做演講的節選 ? 史蒂夫 喬布斯(Steve Jobs)：把每一天都當成生命中的最后一天

? 在我17歲的時候，我讀到了一句箴言，差不多是這樣的：“如果你把每一天都當作生命中的最后一天去生活的話，那么終有一天你會發現自己是正確的。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象，從那時算起的33年以來，我每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我還會做自己今天即將要做的事嗎？”當答案連續多次都是“不”時，我就知道自己需要做些改變了。——斯坦福大學，2005年

? 比爾蓋茨

? 比爾 蓋茨(Bill Gates)：你的能力越大，人們對你的期望也就越大

? 我的母親在我被哈佛大學錄取的那一天曾經感到非常驕傲，她從沒有停止督促我去為他人做更多的事情。在我結婚的前幾天，她主持了一個新娘進我家的儀式。在這個儀式上，她高聲朗讀了一封關于婚姻的信，這是她寫給梅琳達(Melinda)的。那時，我的母親已經因為癌癥病入膏肓，但是她還是認為這是又一個傳播自己信念的機會。在那封信的結尾，她寫道：“你的能力越大，人們對你的期望也就越大。”——哈佛大學，2007年

? 奧普拉溫弗瑞

? 奧普拉 溫弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)：我們所有人時不時都需要化化妝。

? 在生活中，我們所有人時不時都需要化化妝。同學們，我清楚這一點，如果你們能看到改變自己人生的可能性，如果你們能看到自己可以成為怎樣的人而不是原本的面貌，那么你們將獲得巨大的成功。——杜克大學，2009年

? 邁克爾 戴爾(Michael Dell)：永遠不要當房間里最聰明的那個人

? 永遠不要嘗試成為房間里最聰明的那個人，如果你是的話，我建議你請來一位更聰明的……或者自己換個不同的房間。在職場中，這叫做人際關系。在組織中，這叫做隊伍建設。在生活中，這被稱為家庭、朋友和圈子。我們都是彼此的禮物，在我成長為一名領導者的過程中，我得到的啟示一遍遍地重復，即最有益的經驗是來自人與人之間的關系。——得克薩斯大學，2003年

? 邁克爾 布隆伯格：保持樂觀，別消沉太久

? 我離開學校后在華爾街找到了第一份工作，我一直在那兒工作了15年。那是一段不錯的歷程，有快樂的時光，也有很多老板們對我的稱贊。每個人都喜歡我，直到他們炒我魷魚的那一天！不過，我仍然保持著樂觀，因為幸福對我來說一直是走出去以及嘗試戰勝種種困難。所以，在被解雇后的第二天——真的就是第二天——我創辦了一家新的公司。——塔夫斯大學，2007年

永遠不要嘗試成為房間里最聰明的那個人，如果你是的話，我建議你請來一位更聰明的……或者自己換個不同的房間。在職場中，這叫做人際關系。在組織中，這叫做隊伍建設。在生活中，這被稱為家庭、朋友和圈子。我們都是彼此的禮物，在我成長為一名領導者的過程中，我得到的啟示一遍遍地重復，即最有益的經驗是來自人與人之間的關系。——得克薩斯大學，2003年

? J.K．羅琳(JK Rowling)：失敗乃成功之母

? 那么，我為什么要談論失敗的好處呢？因為失敗意味著剝離掉那些不必要的東西。我因此不再偽裝自己、遠離自我，而重新開始把所有精力放在對我最重要的事情上。如果不是沒有在其他領域成功過，我可能就不會在一個我確信真正屬于的舞臺上找到取得成功的決心。我獲得了自由，因為最害怕的雖然已經發生了，但我還活著，我仍然有一個我深愛的女兒，我還有一臺舊打字機和一個很大的想法。所以，困境的谷底成為了我重建生活的堅實基礎。——哈佛大學，2008年

? 杰夫 貝索斯：天賦得來很容易，而選擇卻頗為艱難

? 我斗膽做一個預測：在你們80歲時某個追憶往昔的時刻，當你一個人靜靜地對內心訴說自己的人生故事，其中最為充實、最有意義的那段講述會被你們作出的一系列決定所填滿。最后，是選擇塑造了我們的人生。為你自己塑造一個偉大的人生故事吧。——普林斯頓大學，2010年

? 馬克 扎克伯格：如果你喜歡自己做的事，事情會容易很多

? 當你回家吃飯，盤子里是最難吃的蔬菜，如果你愿意可以勉強自己吃下去。但如果你是玩游戲，即使非常難，只要自己喜歡，你也會努力通關。如果你喜歡自己做的事，事情會容易很多，而你也將擁有更大的決心。——加州門羅公園貝拉港社區學校，2011年

? 史蒂夫 鮑爾默(Steve Ballmer)：不要激情，要有韌性

? 激情是對某件事物產生興奮的能力，而控制力和韌性則是保持這種興奮的能力。如果你考察一下我們這個行業的那些創業公司，你會發現它們大多數都失敗了。如果你再考察一下那些獲得成功的公司，比如微軟、蘋果、谷歌以及Facebook，凡是你能叫出名字的，它們都經歷過困難時期。你取得了一些成功，你也撞了幾回南墻，你為新的點子和創新嘗試新的途徑，但未能成功，這時候決定事業成敗的就是，你有多頑強，你有多大的控制力，你有多樂觀以及你有多少韌性。——南加州大學，2011年

? 拉里 佩奇(Larry Page)：追尋偉大的夢想，你不會遇到競爭

? 我認為，追尋雄心萬丈的夢想通常更加容易，我知道這聽起來完全是一派胡言。不過，既然沒有別的人瘋狂到會做這件事情，你就沒有競爭對手了。達到這種瘋狂程度的人是如此之少，以至于我感覺自己跟他們都認識。他們像狗群一樣漫游，像膠水一樣相互親近，這些最優秀的人樂于接受艱巨的挑戰，這就是在谷歌發生的事情。——密歇根大學，2009年

? 埃里克 施密特(Eric Schmidt)：不要刻意制定計劃

? 不要刻意制定計劃，那些有關計劃的東西，你們可以扔掉了。在我看來，一切都關乎機遇和爭取到自己的運氣。如果你觀察那些最成功的人士，你會發現，他們工作努力并充分利用了機遇，但他們并不知道那些機遇會降臨到自己頭上。你無法為創新制定計劃，你也無法為發明制定計劃。你所能做的就是，盡自己最大的努力呆在正確的地方，并隨時準備著。——卡內基-梅隆大學，2009年

? 埃里 布羅德(Eli Broad)：膽小成不了大事

? 從沒有一個人是靠著小心翼翼、羞怯或講道理賺到百萬美元財富的。在我產生放棄注冊會計師的職業生涯而成為住房建筑商的瘋狂念頭時，我才22歲并剛剛結婚，并且對建筑一竅不通。但有時候，最瘋狂的想法能夠帶來最豐厚的回報。1953年，我冒險開始建造不帶地下室的住宅樓——這在中西部是史無前例的——因為這種住宅的月供要比大多數人所付的房租更低。——加州大學洛杉磯分校藝術和建筑學院，2006年

? 皮埃爾 奧米迪亞(Pierre Omidyar)：有備無患

? 要真正做到有備無患，你需要調整定位來制定一些備選方案，這樣當機會之門洞開時，你就能近水樓臺先得月。在很大程度上，生活跟軟件程序一樣都是線性的。我們都面對著這樣一種誘惑，即把過去定格并投射到未來當中。但未來并不總是沿著一條直線發展，所以，作為一名軟件工程師，你要學會在設計中融入一定的靈活性：避免被單一的解決方案局限，建立一個適用于多種用途的平臺。——塔夫斯大學，2002年 ? 老羅斯 佩羅(Ross Perot, Sr。)：制定你的十年規劃

? 你們這一代人比上代人有更多的十年用來規劃，你們很多人應該預期自己在八九十歲時仍然擁有生產力。當你們到達那個點時，我建議你們想一想怎樣為國家服務，以及怎樣回饋社會。而在20歲出頭時，我建議你們去周游和探索這個世界，去認識這個星球的居民并表達對他們的敬意。去冒險吧，去認識你自己，發現你自己真正的激情所在，然后，我希望你們把學到的東西都帶回來。——南衛理公會大學，2006年

? 特德 特納(Ted Turner)：早睡早起，拼命工作，并且極力宣傳

? 當我被反復問及，?你的成功秘訣是什么？?我都會這樣回答：“早睡早起，拼命工作，并且極力宣傳。”——蒙大拿州立大學北分校，2011年

? 雷德 霍夫曼(Reid Hoffman)：逆勢而動，做正確的事

? 始終進行創造性和大膽的思考，你在哪里可以看到一個巨大的機會？你覺得哪些事物將發生變化？你能看到哪些別人看不到的東西？成為一名成功的企業家，部分訣竅在于逆勢而動并且做正確的事。這兩者特別重要，因為如果大家都看到沒有市場機會，那你逆勢而為就不存在阻礙，但接著你必須確保自己的判斷是正確的。——加州大學伯克利分校信息技術學院，2011年

第四篇：名人名校勵志英語演講稿

名人名校勵志英語演講稿：Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于競爭，勇于關愛---美國國務卿希拉里·克林頓耶魯大學演講

Dare to compete.Dare to care.Dare to dream.Dare to love.Practice the art of making possible.And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.要敢于競爭，敢于關愛，敢于憧憬，大膽去愛！要努力創造奇跡！無論發生什么，即使有人在你背后大聲喊叫，也要勇往直前。

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It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary.I have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law School.And it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.What I think most about when I think of Yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that I received.It was at Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared about ever since.I began working with New Haven legal services representing children.And I studied child development, abuse and neglect at the Yale New Haven Hospital and the Child Study Center.I was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children’s Defense Fund, where I went to work after I graduated.Those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.Now, looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path my life would have taken.I didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, I think I’ll graduate and then I’ll go to work at the Children’s Defense Fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, I’ll go to Arkansas.I didn’t think like that.I was taking each day at a time.But, I’ve been very fortunate because I’ve always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose.A set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in.A passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light.Because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her God-given potential.But you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.When I was thinking about running for the United States Senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I would have been making when I was here on campus-I visited a school in New York City and I met a young woman, who was a star athlete.I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women in sports called “Dare to compete.” It was about Title IX and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports.And although I played not very well at intramural sports, I have always been a strong supporter of women in sports.And I was introduced by this young woman, and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying I should or shouldn’t run for the Senate.And I was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and she said, “Dare to compete, Mrs.Clinton.Dare to compete.”

I took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next.And yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are competing with others.I took her advice and I did compete because I chose to do so.And the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to make.I’m sure you’ll receive good advice.You’re got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to compete.And by that I don’t mean the kind of cutthroat competition that is too often characterized by what is driving America today.I mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.And it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed.In fact, you won’t.There are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments.You will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you.But if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others.You can get back up, you can keep going.But it is also important, as I have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit.I think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own.I chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything I’ve ever done, determined my course.You compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born knowing too well what their futures will be.They lack the freedom to choose their life’s path.They’re imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.So, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to care.Dare to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own lives.There are so many out there and sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already.I know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.You have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you.You have dared to care.Well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry.Dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources.Dare to care about protecting our environment.Dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance.Dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail.The seven million people who suffer from HIV/AIDS.And thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further.And I’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process.You know, as I go and speak with students I’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve.You may have missed the last wave of the dot.com revolution, but you’ve understood that the dot.community revolution is there for you every single day.And you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.And yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process.I hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy.Your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics.Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics.Some have called you the generation of choice.You’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles.You’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.You’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible.And I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.The social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down.Community service and religious involvement being up.But if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale.Many of you I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated.But at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national peril.Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as community.Americorps and the Peace Corps exist because of political decisions.Our air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political choices.Our ability to cure disease or log onto the Internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments.Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo ended because of political leadership.Your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation systems.Many used GI Bills or government loans, as I did, to attend college.Now, I could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its claim.And, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to participate.It is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly now.There’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about;rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.But as many have said before and as Vaclav Havel has said to memorably, “It cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions.It is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this Earth and of our deeds.” And I think we are called on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our God-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world.During my campaign, when times were tough and days were long I used to think about the example of Harriet Tubman, a heroic New Yorker, a 19th century Moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom.She would say to those who she gathered up in the South where she kept going back year after year from the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going.If they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going.If they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom.Well, those aren’t the risks we face.It is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.Thirty-two years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible.For after all, our fate is to be free.To choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over hate.Just as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new life.And as I think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, I have a sense of what their feeling.Their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own American dreams.Well, I applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as I applaud your daughters and sons for theirs.And I leave these graduates with the same message I hope to leave with my graduate.Dare to compete.Dare to care.Dare to dream.Dare to love.Practice the art of making possible.And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.Thank you and God bless you all.

第五篇：名人名校勵志英語演講稿

Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于競爭，勇于關愛---美國國務卿希拉里·克林頓耶魯大學演講

Dare to compete.Dare to care.Dare to dream.Dare to love.Practice the art of making possible.And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.要敢于競爭，敢于關愛，敢于憧憬，大膽去愛！要努力創造奇跡！無論發生什么，即使有人在你背后大聲喊叫，也要勇往直前。

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It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary.I have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law School.And it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.What I think most about when I think of Yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that I received.It was at Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared about ever since.I began working with New Haven legal services representing children.And I studied child development, abuse and neglect at the Yale New Haven Hospital and the Child Study Center.I was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children’s Defense Fund, where I went to work after I graduated.Those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.Now, looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path my life would have taken.I didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, I think I’ll graduate and then I’ll go to work at the Children’s Defense Fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, I’ll go to Arkansas.I didn’t think like that.I was taking each day at a time.But, I’ve been very fortunate because I’ve always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose.A set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in.A passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light.Because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her God-given potential.But you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.When I was thinking about running for the United States Senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I would have been making when I was

here on campus-I visited a school in New York City and I met a young woman, who was a star athlete.I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women in sports called “Dare to compete.” It was about Title IX and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports.And although I played not very well at intramural sports, I have always been a strong supporter of women in sports.And I was introduced by this young woman, and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying I should or shouldn’t run for the Senate.And I was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and she said, “Dare to compete, Mrs.Clinton.Dare to compete.”

I took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next.And yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are competing with others.I took her advice and I did compete because I chose to do so.And the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to make.I’m sure you’ll receive good advice.You’re got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to compete.And by that I don’t mean the kind of cutthroat competition that is too often characterized by what is driving America today.I mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.And it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed.In fact, you won’t.There are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments.You will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you.But if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others.You can get back up, you can keep going.But it is also important, as I have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit.I think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own.I chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything I’ve ever done, determined my course.You compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born knowing too well what their futures will be.They lack the freedom to choose their life’s path.They’re imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.So, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to care.Dare to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own lives.There are so many out there and

sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already.I know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.You have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you.You have dared to care.Well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry.Dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources.Dare to care about protecting our environment.Dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance.Dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail.The seven million people who suffer from HIV/AIDS.And thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further.And I’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process.You know, as I go and speak with students I’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve.You may have missed the last wave of the dot.com revolution, but you’ve understood that the dot.community revolution is there for you every single day.And you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.And yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process.I hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy.Your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics.Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics.Some have called you the generation of choice.You’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles.You’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.You’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible.And I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.The social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down.Community service and religious involvement being up.But if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale.Many of you I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated.But at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national peril.Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as community.Americorps and the Peace Corps exist because of political decisions.Our air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political choices.Our ability to cure disease or log onto the Internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments.Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo ended because of political leadership.Your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation systems.Many used GI Bills or government loans, as I did, to attend college.Now, I could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its claim.And, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to participate.It is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly now.There’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about;rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.But as many have said before and as Vaclav Havel has said to memorably, “It cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions.It is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this Earth and of our deeds.” And I think we are called on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our God-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world.During my campaign, when times were tough and days were long I used to think about the example of Harriet Tubman, a heroic New Yorker, a 19th century Moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom.She would say to those who she gathered up in the South where she kept going back year after year from the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going.If they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going.If they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom.Well, those aren’t the risks we face.It is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.Thirty-two years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to

embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible.For after all, our fate is to be free.To choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over hate.Just as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new life.And as I think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, I have a sense of what their feeling.Their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own American dreams.Well, I applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as I applaud your daughters and sons for theirs.And I leave these graduates with the same message I hope to leave with my graduate.Dare to compete.Dare to care.Dare to dream.Dare to love.Practice the art of making possible.And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.Thank you and God bless you all.