第一篇：美國大學十佳畢業典禮演講

Top 10 Commencement Speeches Quotes in American Universities

每年的五六月，是美國大學舉行畢業典禮的季節。按照慣例，各界名流都會受邀到各大名校去作激動人心的演講。本文精選了近年來美國最有影響力的十佳畢業典禮演講，與已經或即將畢業的讀者朋友們共勉。

1.Steve Jobs

史蒂芬·喬布斯

CEO of Apple Computers 蘋果電腦CEO

Stanford University斯坦福大學

June 12, 20052005年6月12日

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.There is no reason not to follow your heart.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most

important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.記著你總會死去，這是我知道的防止患得患失的最佳辦法。赤條條來去無牽掛，還有什么理由不隨你的心？！

你的時間是有限的，因此不要把時間浪費在過別人的生活上。不要被教條所困——使自己的生活受限于他人的思想成果。不要讓他人的意見淹沒了你自己內心的聲音。最重要的是，要有勇氣跟隨你的內心與直覺，它們好歹已經知道你真正想讓自己成為什么。其他的，都是次要的。

2.David Foster Wallace

大衛·福斯特·華萊士

Novelist小說家

Kenyon College肯尼恩學院

May 21, 20052005年5月21日

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys.How's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”...simple awareness;awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

“This is water.”

“This is water.”

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.有兩條小魚一起在水里游，碰到一條老魚迎面游過來。老魚向他們點點頭，并說：“早上好，孩子們。水怎么樣？”這兩條小魚繼續往前游了一會兒后，其中一條小魚實在忍不住了，看了一下另一條小魚，問道：“水到底是什么東西？”

……簡單的意識；對我們生活中如此真實、如此必不可少、無處不在、無時不在的事物的意識，需要我們一遍一遍地提醒自己：

“這是水。”

“這是水。”

天天都保持意識清醒而鮮活，在成人世界中做到這點，是不可想象地難。

3.Michael Uslan

邁克爾·奧斯蘭

Movie Producer電影制片人

Indiana University 印第安納大學

May 06, 20062006年5月6日

You must believe in yourself and in your work.When our first Batman movie broke all those box-office records, I received a phone call from that United Artists exec who, years before, had told me I was out of my mind.Now he said, “Michael, I'm just calling to congratulate you on the success of Batman.I always said you were a visionary.” You see the point here — don't believe them when they tell you how bad you are or how terrible your ideas are, but also, don't believe them when they tell you how wonderful you are and how great your ideas are.Just believe in yourself and you'll do just fine.And, oh yes, don't then forget to market yourself and your ideas.Use both sides of your brain.You must have a high threshold for frustration.Take it from the guy who was turned down by every studio in Hollywood.You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed.Doors will slam in your face.You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again.It's the only way to achieve your goals in life.你必須相信你自己，對自己的工作充滿信心。當我們的第一部電影《蝙蝠俠》創下史無前例的票房紀錄時，我接到了藝術家聯合會會長的電話，他在數年之前曾說我瘋了。如今他說：“邁克爾，我給你打電話祝賀《蝙蝠俠》的成功。我總說你是一位有遠見的人。”你看，關鍵在這里，當他們說你有多差，你的想法有多糟的時候，不要信他們的話，同時，當他們告訴你你有多么了不起，你的想法多美妙時，也不要相信他們。你就只相信你自己，這樣你就能做好。還有，那就是，不要忘記推銷你自己和你的想法。左右大腦你都得用。

要能經受得住挫敗。這是被好萊塢每一家制片廠拒絕過的人的經驗。你必須去敲一扇扇的門，直到指關節流血。大門會在你面前砰然關上，你必須重振旗鼓，彈去身上的灰塵，再敲下一扇門。這是實現你人生目標的唯一辦法。

4.Woody Hayes

伍迪·海耶斯

College Fooball Coach大學橄欖球教練

Ohio State University俄亥俄州立大學

May 14, 19861986年5月14日

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us.We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves.And that’s what people have to do, too — make sure they don't beat themselves....you'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.Never.在橄欖球場上，我們總是說其他隊戰勝不了我們。我們必須做到不把自己打垮。所有人也都必須這么做，確保自己不要被自己打垮。

……你會發現，來得容易的東西總是一文不值。事實上，我從來沒有看到哪位橄欖球運動員是帶著微笑完成阻截的。從來沒有。

5.Bradley Whitford

布蘭德利·惠特福德

Actor演員

University Wisconsin-Madison威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校

May 17, 20062006年5月17日

Number One: Fall in love with the process and the results will follow.Number Two: Do your work.Number Three: Once you're prepared, throw your preparation in the trash.Number Four: You are capable of more than you think.Number Five: Listen.Number Six: Take action.You have a choice.You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can

be the active hero of your own life.Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair.第一，愛上過程，結果自然會來。

第二，做你的事。

第三，一旦準備好，就付諸行動。

第四，你能做的，超出了你的想象。

第五，聆聽。

第六，采取行動。

你有一個選擇。要么你成為環境的被動受害者，要么你主動成為自己生活的英雄。行動可以消除冷漠、玩世不恭與絕望。

第二篇：美國大學十佳畢業典禮演講精選(中英文對照)

Top 10 Commencement Speeches Quotes in American Universities

美國大學十佳畢業典禮演講精選

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每年的五六月，是美國大學舉行畢業典禮的季節。按照慣例，各界名流都會受邀到各大名校去作激動人心的演講。本文精選了近年來美國最有影響力的十佳畢業典禮演講，與已經或即將畢業的讀者朋友們共勉。

1.Steve Jobs

史蒂芬·喬布斯

CEO of Apple Computers 蘋果電腦CEO

Stanford University斯坦福大學

June 12, 20052005年6月12日

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.There is no reason not to follow your heart.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.記著你總會死去，這是我知道的防止患得患失的最佳辦法。赤條條來去無牽掛，還有什么理由不隨你的心？！

你的時間是有限的，因此不要把時間浪費在過別人的生活上。不要被教條所困——使自己的生活受限于他人的思想成果。不要讓他人的意見淹沒了你自己內心的聲音。最重要的是，要有勇氣跟隨你的內心與直覺，它們好歹已經知道你真正想讓自己成為什么。其他的，都是次要的。

2.David Foster Wallace

大衛·福斯特·華萊士

Novelist小說家

Kenyon College肯尼恩學院

May 21, 20052005年5月21日

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys.How's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

...simple awareness;awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

“This is water.”

“This is water.”

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.有兩條小魚一起在水里游，碰到一條老魚迎面游過來。老魚向他們點點頭，并說：“早上好，孩子們。水怎么樣？”這兩條小魚繼續往前游了一會兒后，其中一條小魚實在忍不住了，看了一下另一條小魚，問道：“水到底是什么東西？”

??簡單的意識；對我們生活中如此真實、如此必不可少、無處不在、無時不在的事物的意識，需要我們一遍一遍地提醒自己：

“這是水。”

“這是水。”

天天都保持意識清醒而鮮活，在成人世界中做到這點，是不可想象地難。

3.Michael Uslan

邁克爾·奧斯蘭

Movie Producer電影制片人

Indiana University 印第安納大學

May 06, 20062006年5月6日

You must believe in yourself and in your work.When our first Batman movie broke all those box-office records, I received a phone call from that United Artists exec who, years before, had told me I was out of my mind.Now he said, “Michael, I'm just calling to congratulate you on the success of Batman.I always said you were a visionary.” You see the point here — don't believe them when they tell you how bad you are or how terrible your ideas are, but also, don't believe them when they tell you how wonderful you are and how great your ideas are.Just believe in yourself and you'll do just fine.And, oh yes, don't then forget to market yourself and your ideas.Use both sides of your brain.You must have a high threshold for frustration.Take it from the guy who was turned down by every studio in Hollywood.You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed.Doors will slam in your face.You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again.It's the only way to achieve your goals in life.你必須相信你自己，對自己的工作充滿信心。當我們的第一部電影《蝙蝠俠》創下史無前例的票房紀錄時，我接到了藝術家聯合會會長的電話，他在數年之前曾說我瘋了。如今他說：“邁克爾，我給你打電話祝賀《蝙蝠俠》的成功。我總說你是一位有遠見的人。”你看，關鍵在這里，當他們說你有多差，你的想法有多糟的時候，不要信他們的話，同時，當他們告訴你你有多么了不起，你的想法多美妙時，也不要相信他們。你就只相信你自己，這樣你就能做好。還有，那就是，不要忘記推銷你自己和你的想法。左右大腦你都得用。

要能經受得住挫敗。這是被好萊塢每一家制片廠拒絕過的人的經驗。你必須去敲一扇扇的門，直到指關節流血。大門會在你面前砰然關上，你必須重振旗鼓，彈去身上的灰塵，再敲下一扇門。這是實現你人生目標的唯一辦法。

4.Woody Hayes

伍迪·海耶斯

College Fooball Coach大學橄欖球教練

Ohio State University俄亥俄州立大學

May 14, 19861986年5月14日

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us.We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves.And that’s what people have to do, too — make sure they don't beat themselves....you'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.Never.在橄欖球場上，我們總是說其他隊戰勝不了我們。我們必須做到不把自己打垮。所有人也都必須這么做，確保自己不要被自己打垮。

??你會發現，來得容易的東西總是一文不值。事實上，我從來沒有看到哪位橄欖球運動員是帶著微笑完成阻截的。

5.Bradley Whitford

布蘭德利·惠特福德

Actor演員

University Wisconsin-Madison威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校

May 17, 20062006年5月17日

Number One: Fall in love with the process and the results will follow.Number Two: Do your work.Number Three: Once you're prepared, throw your preparation in the trash.Number Four: You are capable of more than you think.Number Five: Listen.Number Six: Take action.You have a choice.You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair.第一，愛上過程，結果自然會來。

第二，做你的事。

第三，一旦準備好，就付諸行動。

第四，你能做的，超出了你的想象。

第五，聆聽。

第六，采取行動。

你有一個選擇。要么你成為環境的被動受害者，要么你主動成為自己生活的英雄。行動可以消除冷漠、玩世不恭與絕望。

6.Jerry Zucker

杰瑞·朱克

Director, movie producer 導演、電影制片人

University of Wisconsin威斯康辛大學

May 17, 20032003年5月17日

It doesn't matter whether your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.Ask yourself one question: If I didn't have to do it perfectly, what would I try?

Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are.You're the only one who is obsessed with the importance of your own life.To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on.如果你一生都在睡覺，你的夢想是否實現就無關緊要了。

問你自己一個問題：如果我不是必須做得完美，那我還努力什么呢？

沒有人會像你自己那樣對自己的失敗那么在意。你是唯一一個能追求自己的生活意義的人。對于其他所有人來說，你只是雷達熒光屏上的一個光點。所以，只管前行吧。

7.Earl Bakken

厄爾·巴肯

Businessman商人

University of Hawaii 夏威夷大學

By all reckoning, the bumblebee is aerodynamically unsound and shouldn't be able to fly.Yet, the little bee gets those wings going like a turbo-jet and flies to every plant its chubby little body can land on to collect all the nectar it can hold.Bumblebees are the most persistent creatures.They don't know they can't fly, so they just keep buzzing around.Never give in to pessimism.Don't know that you can't fly, and you will soar like an eagle.Don't end up regretting what you did not do because you were too lazy or too frightened to soar.Be a bumblebee!And soar to the heavens.You can do it.無論怎么考量，大黃蜂從空氣動力學上講是不健全、不應該會飛的。但是，這種小蜜蜂卻像渦輪噴氣飛機一樣地展翅飛行，飛到它圓乎乎的身體能夠降落的任何植物上去采蜜。

大黃蜂最堅韌的生靈，它們不知道自己不能飛，因此它們只管到處嗡嗡地飛個不停。

千萬不要悲觀。不知道你不會飛，你會像鷹一樣高高飛翔。不要到頭來后悔自己因為太懶或太怕高飛而無所作為。做一只大黃蜂。飛到天上去。你能做到的。

8.John Walsh

約翰·沃爾什

Author and art historian作家和藝術歷史學家

Wheaton College惠頓學院

20002000年

Do one thing at a time.Give each experience all your attention.Try to resist being distracted by other sights and sounds, other thoughts and tasks, and when it is, guide your mind back to what you're doing.I'm not warning against learning many things on many subjects.My warning is against distraction, whether you invite it or just let it happen.In baseball, high-percentage hitters know better: it's “focus” they talk about, and they prize it as much as strength.Psychologists describe skilled rock climbers and tennis players and pianists as going beyond focus, to what they have called a “flow” experience, a sense of absorption with the rock or the ball or the music in which the “me versus it” disappears and there's a kind of oneness with the task that brings a joyful higher awareness, as well as successful performance.I've had these experiences, too little but not too late, and probably you have, too.They are a supreme kind of pleasure.You will have more of them if you do one thing at a time.一次做一件事情。全力關注你每一次的經歷。決不要被別的聲色之物和其他想法、任務分心。一旦分心了，引導你的注意力重新回到你做的事情上。

我不是在反對學習多個學科的眾多知識。我所警告的是分心與干擾，無論是你主動招惹的，還是讓它發生的。在棒球場上，得分高的擊球員對此有更深體會：他們談的是“專注”，他們把它看得跟力量一樣重要。在心理學家的描述中，高技能的攀巖者、網球運動員、鋼琴家已經超越了專注，達到了他們所稱的經驗之“流”，那是一種跟巖石、網球或音樂融為一體的感覺，“我與它”已然消失，跟任務合二為一，給人以更高水平的愉悅體驗，而不僅僅是成功地完成了任務。我有這種體驗，雖然很少，但來得還不算遲，或許你也有這種體驗。這是一種最高形式的快樂。如果你一次專注于一件事情，你就會有更多這樣的體驗。

9.David L.Calhoun

大衛·卡爾霍恩

Businessman商人

Virginia Tech弗吉尼亞理工大學

May 13, 20052005年5月13日

to isolate the subject he spoke most passionately to me about, over all those years, it is that SELF CONFIDENCE is the most important, the indispensable characteristic of success, the common characteristic shared by great leaders whose talents may have varied widely in most other respects.So, how do you get it? What is the secret to developing your own brand of self-confidence?

First, you must resolve to grow intellectually, morally, technically, and professionally every day through your entire work and family life.You need to ask yourself every day: Am I really up to speed or falling behind? Am I still learning? Or am I just doing the same stuff on a different day or as Otis Redding sings, “Sitting on the dock of the bay...watching the tide roll away?”

The lust for learning is age-independent.Another important way to build your confidence is to seek out the toughest jobs, the most daunting scientific, engineering or management challenges.我在通用公司為一個名叫杰克·韋爾奇的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位偉大的領導者，也是一位偉大的導師，過去是，現在也是。如果我必須找出那些年里他充滿激情地對我說的最主要的話，那就是：自信是最重要的，它是成功必不可少的，是所有在其他多數方面才能也許大相徑庭的偉大領導者的共同特征。

如何獲得自信？培養你特有的自信的秘訣是什么？

首先，你必須下決心每天都通過你的工作和家庭生活去獲得智力、道德、技術與專業上的提高。你需要每天問自己：我是在加速前進還是在后退？我還在學習嗎？我是在每天重復做同樣的事情或就像奧蒂斯·瑞汀所唱的那樣，“坐在海灣的碼頭上，看潮起潮落”？

對學習的渴望是不受年齡限制的。

培養自信的另一個重要途徑是尋找最難做的工作，最棘手的科學、工程或管理方面的難題。

10.Marc S.Lewis

馬克·劉易斯

Clinical psychology professor臨床心理學教授

University of Texas at Austin得克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校

May 19, 20002000年5月19日

There are times when you are going to do well, and times when you're going to fail.But neither the doing well, nor the failure is the measure of success.The measure of success is what you think about what you've done.Let me put that another way: The way to be happy is to like yourself and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.There's that old joke, not very funny, that goes, “No matter where you go, there you are.” That's true.The person who you're with most in life is yourself and if you don't like yourself you're always with somebody you don't like.有時候你會干得很漂亮，有時候你會失敗，但二者都不是衡量成功的標準。衡量成功的標準是你自己對你的所為怎么看。讓我換一句話說：讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡你自己，喜歡自己的辦法是只做讓你自己感到驕傲的事情。

有一個老笑話，不是很好笑，它是這么說的：“無論你走到哪里，你都在那里。”這是真的。你一生中跟你在一起最多的人是你自己，如果你不喜歡你自己，那你就會總是跟你不喜歡的人在一起。

第三篇：美國大學畢業典禮演講輯錄

美國大學畢業典禮演講輯錄

01杰瑞·朱克（導演、電影制片人，2003年，威期康星大學）

如果你一生都在睡覺，你的夢想是否實現就無關緊要了。

問你自己一個問題：如果我不是必須做得完美，那我還努力什么呢？

沒有人會像你那樣，對自己的失敗那么在意。你是唯一在乎自己的重要性的人。對于其他人來說，你只是雷達熒光屏上的一個光點。所以，只管前行吧！

2、馬克·劉易斯（教授、臨床心理學家，2000年，得克薩斯大學）

有時候你會干得很漂亮，有時候你會失敗。但二都都不是成功的標準。成功的標準是你對自己的所為怎么看。讓我換一句話說：“讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡自己，喜歡自己的辦法是只做讓自己感到驕傲的事情。”

3、大衛·福斯特·華萊士（小說家，2005年，肯尼恩學院）

有兩條小魚在一起游泳，一天他們碰巧遇到了一條老魚。老魚向他們點頭，并說：“早上好，孩子們。水怎么樣？”這兩條小魚繼續往前游，其中一條小魚實在忍不住了，問另一條小魚：“水是什么東西？”

簡單的意識，對我們生活中如此真實、如此必不可少，無處不在、無時不在的事物的意識，需我們一遍一遍地提醒自己：“這是水，這是水。”

4、約翰·沃爾什（作家和藝術歷史學家，2000年，惠頓神學院）

一次做一件事情，給你的每一次經歷全部的注意力。努力避免被別的聲色之物和其他想法、任務分心。一旦分了心，引導你的內心重新回到你做的事情上。我不反對學習多個學科的眾多知識，但鑒賞力真的很有用。我所警告的是分心與干擾，無論是你主動招惹的，還是讓它發生的，就像我一生所做的那樣。在棒球場上，得分高的擊球員對此有更深的體會：他們談是的“專注”，他們把它看得跟力量一樣重要。在心理學家的描述中，高技能的攀巖者、網球運動員、鋼琴家已經超越了專注，達到了他們所稱的經驗之“流”，那是一種跟巖石、網球或音樂融為一體的感覺，“我VS它”已然消失，跟任務合二為一，給人以更高水平的憐愉悅體驗，而不僅僅是成功地完成了任務。

5、邁克爾·奧斯蘭（電影制片人，2006年，印第安納大學）

你必須相信你自己和你的工作。當我們的第一部電影《蝙蝠俠》創下史無前例的票房紀錄時，我接到了藝術家聯合會會長的電話，他在數前之前曾跟我談過，他說我瘋了。如今他說：“邁克爾，我給你打電話不只是祝賀《蝙蝠俠》的成功，我說過你是一位夢想家。”你看，關鍵在這里：當他們說你有多差，你的想法有多糟的時候，不要信他們的話；當他們說你有多么了不起，你的想法有多美妙時，也不要相信他們。你就只相信你自己，你會做好的。還有，是的，不要忘記推銷你自己和你的想法。左右大腦你都得用。

你的挫敗感閾值一定得高。想想那些被好萊塢每一家制片廠拒絕的人。你必須去敲一扇扇的門，直到指節流血。大門會在你面前砰然關上，你必須重整旗鼓，撣去身上的灰塵，再敲下一扇門。這是實現你人生目標的唯一辦法。

6、大衛·L·卡爾霍恩（商人，2005年，弗吉尼亞理工大學）

我在GE為一個名叫杰克·韋爾奇的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位偉大的領導者，也是一位偉大的導師。如果我必須找出這么多年他對我說的最慷慨激昂的主題，那就是自信。自信是最重要的，它是成功必不可少的，是所有在其他方面大想徑庭的偉大領導者的共同特征。

如何獲得自信？培養你內心的自信的秘訣是什么？

首先，你必須下決心每天都通過你的工作和家庭生活去獲得智力、道德、技術與專業上的增進。你需要每天問自己：我是在前進還是在后退？我還在學習嗎？我是在重復同樣的事情學是像奧蒂斯·瑞汀所說的那樣“坐在海灣的碼頭上，看潮起潮落”？

對學習的渴望是不受年齡限制的。

培養自信的另一個重要途徑是尋找最難的工作，接受最枯燥的科學、工程或管理的挑戰。

7、厄爾·巴肯（商人，2004年，夏威夷大學）

無論怎么考量，大黃蜂從空氣動力學上講是最不健全、不應該會飛的。但是，這個小東西有著渦輪噴氣式飛機一樣的翅膀，能夠帶著它圓乎乎的身體飛到任何植物的花蕊上去采蜜。大黃蜂是最堅韌的生靈，它們不知道它們不能飛，因此它們只管嗡嗡地把翅膀扇個不停。

千萬不要屈服于悲觀。不知道你不會飛，你會飛得像鷹一樣高。不要到頭來埋怨自己因為太懶或太怕高飛而無所作為。做一只大黃蜂！飛到天上去！你會作到的。

8、布蘭德利·惠特福德（演員，2006年，威斯康星—迪遜大學）

第一，愛上過程，結果自然會來。第二，做你的事，第三，一旦你準備好，把你的準備丟進垃圾桶里。第四，你能做的超出了你的想象。第五，聆聽。第六，采取行動。

你有一個選擇：要么成為環境的被動受害者，要么成為你自己生命的英雄。行動是冷漠、玩世不恭與絕望的解毒劑。

9、伍迪·海耶斯（大學橄欖球教練，1986年，俄亥俄州立大學）

在橄欖球場上，我們總是說其他隊戰勝不了我們。我們必須堅信，我們不能打垮自己。所有人都必須這么做，確保我們不要被自己打垮。

你會發現，來得容易的東西總是一文不值。事實上，我從來沒有看到哪位橄欖球運動員帶著微笑完成阻截，從來沒有！

2009年被引用最多的畢業典禮演進詞，是艾瑞克·施密特（GOOGLE總裁）在賓夕尼亞大學的演講，其中有這么幾句令人深思：

關掉你的電腦，關掉你的手機，去發現你周圍的人性。什么也比不上牽著你蹣跚學步的孫子的手。

第四篇：美國大學最有影響力的十大畢業典禮演講

美國大學最有影響力的十大畢業典禮演講

據美國知名媒體評選，下面是近年來美國大學最有影響力的十大畢業典禮演講：

1、史蒂芬·喬布斯（Steve Jobs）蘋果電腦CEO 2006年，斯坦福大學

“記住你即將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。因為幾乎所有的事情，包括所有的榮譽、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼，這些在死亡面前都會消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的東西。

你們的時間有限，所以不要將他們浪費在重復其他人的生活上。不要被教條束縛，那意味著你和其他人思考的結果一起生活。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點掩蓋你真正的內心的聲音。還有最重要的是，你要有勇氣去聽從你直覺和心靈的指引——它們在某種程度上知道你想要成為什么樣子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

求知若饑，虛心若愚！

2、杰瑞·朱克（Jerry Zucker）導演、電影制片人 2003年，威斯康辛大學

如果你一生都在睡覺，你的夢想是否實現就無關緊要了。

問你自己一個問題：如果我不是必須做得完美，那我還努力什么呢？

沒有人會像你自己那樣對自己的失敗那么在意。你是唯一沉湎于你自己的重要性的人。對于其他所有人來說，你只是雷達熒光屏上的一個光點。所以，只管前行吧。

3、馬克·劉易斯（Mark Lewis）教授、臨床心理學家 2000年，德克薩斯大學（奧斯汀）

有時候你會干得很漂亮，有時候會失敗。但這兩者都不是成功的量度。成功的量度是你自己對你的所做所為怎么看。讓我換一句話說：讓自己幸福的辦法是喜歡你自己，喜歡你自己的辦法是只做讓你自己感到驕傲的事情。有一個老的笑話，不是很好笑，它是這么說的：“無論你去到哪里，你總是你。”這是真的。你一生中跟你在一起最多的人是你自己，如果你不喜歡你自己，那你就會總是跟你不喜歡的人在一起。

4、大衛·福斯特·華萊士（David Foster Wallace）小說家 2005年，肯尼恩學院

有兩條小魚一起游泳，有一天他們遇到了一條老魚。老魚向他們點頭，并說：“早上好，孩子們。水怎么樣？”這兩條小魚繼續往前游，其中一條小魚實在忍不住了，問另一條小魚：“水是什么東西？”

……

簡單的意識，對我們生活中如此真實、如此必不可少、無處不在、無時不在的事物的意識，需要我們一遍一遍地提醒自己：

“這是水。”

“這是水。”

在一天又一天的成人世界中做到這點，保持意識清醒而鮮活，是不可想象的難。

5、約翰·沃爾什（John Walsh）作家和藝術歷史學家 2000年，惠頓神學院

一次做一件事情，給你每一次經歷全部的注意力。努力抵抗被別的聲色之物和其他想法、任務分心。一旦分心了，引導你的內心重新回到你做的事情上。

我不是在反對學習多個學科的眾多知識，鑒賞力真的很有用。我所警告的是分心與干擾，無論是你主動招惹的，還是被動發生的，就像我一生所做的那樣。在棒球場上，得分高的擊球員對此有更深體會：他們談的是“專注”，他們把它看得跟力量一樣重要。在心理學家的描述中，高技能的攀巖者、網球運動員、鋼琴家已經超越了專注，達到了他們所稱的經驗之“流”，那是一種跟巖石、網球或音樂融為一體的感覺，“我vs.它”已然消失，跟任務合二為一，給人以更高水平的愉悅體驗，而不僅僅是成功地完成了任務。我有這種體驗，雖然很少，但來得還不算遲，或許你也有這種體驗。這是最高形式的快樂。如果你一次專注于做一件事情，你就會有更多這樣的體驗。（來自正能量，微信號：meiriznl）

6、邁克爾·奧斯蘭（Michael Uslan）電影制片人 2006年，印第安納大學

你必須相信你自己和你的工作。當我們第一部電影《蝙蝠俠》創下史無前例的票房紀錄時，我接到了藝術家聯合會會長的電話，他在數年之前曾跟我談過，他說我瘋了。如今他說，“邁克爾，我給你打電話不只是祝賀蝙蝠俠的成功，我說過你是一位夢想家。”你看，關鍵在這里，當他們說你有多差，你的想法有多糟的時候，不要信他們的話，同時，當他們告訴你你有多么了不起，你的想法多美妙時，也不要相信他們。你就只相信你自己，你會做好的。還有，不要忘記推銷你自己和你的想法。左右大腦你都得用。

你的挫敗感閾值一定得高。想想那些被好萊塢每一家制片廠拒絕的人。你必須去敲一扇扇的門，直到指節流血。大門會在你面前砰然關上，你必須重振旗鼓，彈去身上的灰塵，再敲下一扇門。這是實現你人生目標的唯一辦法。

7、大衛·L·卡爾霍恩（David L.Calhoun）商人 2005年，弗吉尼亞理工大學

我在GE為一個名叫杰克·韋爾奇的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位偉大的領導者，也是一位偉大的導師。如果我必須找出這么多年他對我說的最慷慨激昂的主題，那就是自信。自信是最重要的，它是成功必不可少的，是所有在其他方面大相徑庭的偉大領導者的共同特征。

如何獲得自信？培養你內心的自信的秘密是什么？

首先，你必須下決心每天都通過你的工作和家庭生活去獲得智力、道德、技術與專業上的增進。你需要每天問自己：我是在加速還是在后退？我還在學習嗎？我是在重復做同樣的事情或就像奧蒂斯·瑞汀所說的那樣“坐在海灣的碼頭上，看潮起潮落”？

對學習的渴望是不受年齡限制的。

培養自信的另一個重要途徑是尋找最難的工作，最枯燥的科學、工程或管理的挑戰。

8、厄爾·巴肯（Earl Bakken）商人 2004年，夏威夷大學

從空氣動力學上講，大黃蜂的生理結構是最不健全的，無論怎么說，它是最不擅長飛的。但是，它們還是在不停地飛著，用它那像渦輪噴氣式飛機一樣的翅膀，帶著它圓乎乎的身體飛到任何植物的花蕊上去采蜜。因此，它是最堅韌的生靈，縱然不擅長飛，也努力地扇動翅膀，克服自身的不足，讓自己騰空而起。

千萬不要屈服于悲觀。不知道你不會飛，你會飛得像鷹一樣高。不要到頭來埋怨自己因為自己太懶或太怕高飛而無所作為。做一只大黃蜂！飛到天上去！你會做到的。

9、布蘭德利·惠特福德（Bradley Whitford）演員 2006年威斯康辛-麥迪遜大學

第一、愛上過程，結果自然會來。

第二、做你的事。

第三、一旦你準備好，把你的準備丟進垃圾桶里。

第四、你能做的，超出了你的想象。

第五、聆聽。

第六、采取行動。

你有一個選擇。要么你成為環境的被動受害者，要么你成為你自己生命的英雄。行動是冷漠、玩世不恭與絕望的解毒劑。

10、伍迪·海耶斯（Woody Hayes）大學橄欖球教練 1986年俄亥俄州立大學

在橄欖球場上，我們總是說其他隊戰勝不了我們。我們必須堅信我們不能打垮我們自己。所有人都必須這么做，確保自己不要被自己打垮。

第五篇：肯尼迪總統在美國大學畢業典禮的演講(英文)

John F.Kennedy

American University Commencement Address

delivered 10 June 1963 President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, while I am earning mine in the next 30 minutes, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:

It is with great pride that I participate in this ceremony of the American University, sponsored by the Methodist Church, founded by Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, and first opened by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.This is a young and growing university, but it has already fulfilled Bishop Hurst's enlightened hope for the study of history and public affairs in a city devoted to the making of history and to the conduct of the public's business.By sponsoring this institution of higher learning for all who wish to learn, whatever their color or their creed, the Methodists of this area and the Nation deserve the Nation's thanks, and I commend all those who are today graduating.Professor Woodrow Wilson once said that every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time, and I am confident that the men and women who carry the honor of graduating from this institution will continue to give from their lives, from their talents, a high measure of public service and public support.“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university,” wrote John Masefield in his tribute to English universities--and his words are equally true today.He did not refer to towers or to campuses.He admired the splendid beauty of a university, because it was, he said, “a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”

I have, therefore, chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth too rarely perceived.And that is the most important topic on earth: peace.What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, and the kind that enables men and nations to grow, and to hope, and build a better life for their children--not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace in all time.I speak of peace because of the new face of war.Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.It makes no sense in an age where a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War.It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need them is essential to the keeping of peace.But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles--which can only destroy and never create--is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary, rational end of rational men.I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war, and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on deaf ears.But we have no more urgent task.Some say that it is useless to speak of peace or world law or world disarmament, and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet union adopt a more enlightened attitude.I hope they do.I believe we can help them do it.But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitudes, as individuals and as a Nation, for our attitude is as essential as theirs.And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin by looking inward, by examining his own attitude towards the possibilities of peace, towards the Soviet Union, towards the course of the cold war and towards freedom and peace here at home.First examine our attitude towards peace itself.Too many of us think it is impossible.Too many think it is unreal.But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief.It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.We need not accept that view.Our problems are manmade;therefore, they can be solved by man.And man can be as big as he wants.No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again.I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream.I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal.Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions--on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned.There is no single, simple key to this peace;no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers.Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts.It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation.For peace is a process--a way of solving problems.With such a peace, there will still be quarrels and conflicting interests, as there are within families and nations.World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor, it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever.However fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events will often bring surprising changes in the relations between nations and neighbors.So let us persevere.Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly towards it.And second, let us reexamine our attitude towards the Soviet Union.It is discouraging to think that their leaders may actually believe what their propagandists write.It is discouraging to read a recent, authoritative Soviet text on military strategy and find, on page after page, wholly baseless and incredible claims, such as the allegation that American imperialist circles are preparing to unleash different types of war, that there is a very real threat of a preventive war being unleashed by American imperialists against the Soviet Union, and that the political aims--and I quote--“of the American imperialists are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries and to achieve world domination by means of aggressive war.”

Truly, as it was written long ago: “The wicked flee when no man pursueth.” Yet it is sad to read these Soviet statements, to realize the extent of the gulf between us.But it is also a warning, a warning to the American people not to fall into the same trap as the Soviets, not to see only a distorted and desperate view of the other side, not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats.No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.As Americans, we find communism profoundly repugnant as a negation of personal freedom and dignity.But we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture, in acts of courage.Among the many traits the peoples of our two countries have in common, none is stronger than our mutual abhorrence of war.Almost unique among the major world powers, we have never been at war with each other.And no nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet union in the Second World War.At least 20 million lost their lives.Countless millions of homes and families were burned or sacked.A third of the nation's territory, including two thirds of its industrial base, was turned into a wasteland--a loss equivalent to the destruction of this country east of Chicago.Today, should total war ever break out again--no matter how--our two countries will be the primary target.It is an ironic but accurate fact that the two strongest powers are the two in the most danger of devastation.All we have built, all we have worked for, would be destroyed in the first 24 hours.And even in the cold war, which brings burdens and dangers to so many countries, including this Nation's closest allies, our two countries bear the heaviest burdens.For we are both devoting massive sums of money to weapons that could be better devoted to combat ignorance, poverty, and disease.We are both caught up in a vicious and dangerous cycle, with suspicion on one side breeding suspicion on the other, and new weapons begetting counter-weapons.In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race.Agreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet union as well as ours.And even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest.So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved.And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.We all breathe the same air.We all cherish our children's futures.And we are all mortal.Third, let us reexamine our attitude towards the cold war, remembering we're not engaged in a debate, seeking to pile up debating points.We are not here distributing blame or pointing the finger of judgment.We must deal with the world as it is, and not as it might have been had the history of the last 18 years been different.We must, therefore, persevere in the search for peace in the hope that constructive changes within the Communist bloc might bring within reach solutions which now seem beyond us.We must conduct our affairs in such a way that it becomes in the Communists' interest to agree on a genuine peace.And above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy--or of a collective death-wish for the world.To secure these ends, America's weapons are nonprovocative, carefully controlled, designed to deter, and capable of selective use.Our military forces are committed to peace and disciplined in self-restraint.Our diplomats are instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.For we can seek a relaxation of tensions without relaxing our guard.And, for our part, we do not need to use threats to prove we are resolute.We do not need to jam foreign broadcasts out of fear our faith will be eroded.We are unwilling to impose our system on any unwilling people, but we are willing and able to engage in peaceful competition with any people on earth.Meanwhile, we seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine world security system--a system capable of resolving disputes on the basis of law, of insuring the security of the large and the small, and of creating conditions under which arms can finally be abolished.At the same time we seek to keep peace inside the non-Communist world, where many nations, all of them our friends, are divided over issues which weaken Western unity, which invite Communist intervention, or which threaten to erupt into war.Our efforts in West New Guinea, in the Congo, in the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, have been persistent and patient despite criticism from both sides.We have also tried to set an example for others, by seeking to adjust small but significant differences with our own closest neighbors in Mexico and Canada.Speaking of other nations, I wish to make one point clear.We are bound to many nations by alliances.Those alliances exist because our concern and theirs substantially overlap.Our commitment to defend Western Europe and West Berlin, for example, stands undiminished because of the identity of our vital interests.The United States will make no deal with the Soviet union at the expense of other nations and other peoples, not merely because they are our partners, but also because their interests and ours converge.Our interests converge, however, not only in defending the frontiers of freedom, but in pursuing the paths of peace.It is our hope, and the purpose of allied policy, to convince the Soviet union that she, too, should let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others.The Communist drive to impose their political and economic system on others is the primary cause of world tension today.For there can be no doubt that if all nations could refrain from interfering in the self-determination of others, the peace would be much more assured.This will require a new effort to achieve world law, a new context for world discussions.It will require increased understanding between the Soviets and ourselves.And increased understanding will require increased contact and communication.One step in this direction is the proposed arrangement for a direct line between Moscow and Washington, to avoid on each side the dangerous delays, misunderstandings, and misreadings of others' actions which might occur at a time of crisis.We have also been talking in Geneva about our first-step measures of arm[s] controls designed to limit the intensity of the arms race and reduce the risk of accidental war.Our primary long range interest in Geneva, however, is general and complete disarmament, designed to take place by stages, permitting parallel political developments to build the new institutions of peace which would take the place of arms.The pursuit of disarmament has been an effort of this Government since the 1920's.It has been urgently sought by the past three administrations.And however dim the prospects are today, we intend to continue this effort--to continue it in order that all countries, including our own, can better grasp what the problems and possibilities of disarmament are.The only major area of these negotiations where the end is in sight, yet where a fresh start is badly needed, is in a treaty to outlaw nuclear tests.The conclusion of such a treaty, so near and yet so far, would check the spiraling arms race in one of its most dangerous areas.It would place the nuclear powers in a position to deal more effectively with one of the greatest hazards which man faces in 1963, the further spread of nuclear arms.It would increase our security;it would decrease the prospects of war.Surely this goal is sufficiently important to require our steady pursuit, yielding neither to the temptation to give up the whole effort nor the temptation to give up our insistence on vital and responsible safeguards.I'm taking this opportunity, therefore, to announce two important decisions in this regard.First, Chairman Khrushchev, Prime Minister Macmillan, and I have agreed that high-level discussions will shortly begin in Moscow looking towards early agreement on a comprehensive test ban treaty.Our hope must be tempered--Our hopes must be tempered with the caution of history;but with our hopes go the hopes of all mankind.Second, to make clear our good faith and solemn convictions on this matter, I now declare that the United States does not propose to conduct nuclear tests in the atmosphere so long as other states do not do so.We will not--We will not be the first to resume.Such a declaration is no substitute for a formal binding treaty, but I hope it will help us achieve one.Nor would such a treaty be a substitute for disarmament, but I hope it will help us achieve it.Finally, my fellow Americans, let us examine our attitude towards peace and freedom here at home.The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.We must show it in the dedication of our own lives--as many of you who are graduating today will have an opportunity to do, by serving without pay in the Peace Corps abroad or in the proposed National Service Corps here at home.But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together.In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.It is the responsibility of the executive branch at all levels of government--local, State, and National--to provide and protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within our authority.It is the responsibility of the legislative branch at all levels, wherever the authority is not now adequate, to make it adequate.And it is the responsibility of all citizens in all sections of this country to respect the rights of others and respect the law of the land.All this--All this is not unrelated to world peace.“When a man's way[s] please the Lord,” the Scriptures tell us, “he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights: the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation;the right to breathe air as nature provided it;the right of future generations to a healthy existence? While we proceed to safeguard our national interests, let us also safeguard human interests.And the elimination of war and arms is clearly in the interest of both.No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion.But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement, and it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.We do not want a war.We do not now expect a war.This generation of Americans has already had enough--more than enough--of war and hate and oppression.We shall be prepared if others wish it.We shall be alert to try to stop it.But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just.We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success.Confident and unafraid, we must labor on--not towards a strategy of annihilation but towards a strategy of peace.來源：http://wsc.jxbsu.com/show.php?itemid=122