名人励志英语演讲稿

第一篇：名人励志英语演讲稿

名人英文励志演讲稿

新一代大学英语四六级领军人物，英语专家、文化学者、出版人、策划人，“振宇英语”创始人，当当网外语图书热门作者。

外语教学与研究出版社、北京航空航天大学出版社、大连理工大学出版社、海豚出版社、首都师范大学出版社、中国宇航出版社等国内一流出版社“振宇英语”丛书主编。外研社荣誉作者、当当网外语图书热门作者。

曾任国家级媒体记者、翻译、电台英语节目主持人、“振宇英语”专栏撰稿人、大学英语系主任、大学英语专业特聘专家教授。

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对于英语学习者来说，多听多看多练英语演讲是学地道英语的最佳有效途径之一，也是训练语音语调最有效的辅助手段。你不用担心这些演讲是否有语法问题，也不用担心用词是否准确，表达是否到位。因为一些名人的演讲稿通常是字斟句酌精心完成的。此外，通过演讲学英语还可以潜移默化地帮助自己提升对英文的驾驭能力，增强英语的语感和美感。

本书精选了19篇具有代表性的名人的英语演讲。这些名人或是国家领袖，或是关心民权民生的政治人物，或是创造经济财富的精英，或是用文字抒发情怀的作家记者，或是演艺界的娱乐名人。他们都在自己的领域里作出了杰出的贡献。他们思想深刻，见解独到，注定是站在时代前列的人。

这些名人的演讲充满了智慧，富含启迪。它们或是结合自身经历立足于个人发展的谆谆教诲，像亚马逊ceo杰夫·贝索斯在普林斯顿大学演讲，他讲了自己创业的故事，以此鼓励毕业生：未来掌握在自己的手中，追寻自己的梦

想，慎重选择;或是号召民众面对困难迎难而上，像美国第32任总统富兰克林·罗斯福，他就任于美国经济大萧条时期，国内民生凋敝，萎靡不振，他告诉大家，我们惟一害怕的是害怕本身，展示了带领民众走出低谷的豪情;或者充满人文关怀，如美国著名作家威廉·福克纳，站在人类精神的高度，勉励作家文人心中时时充满爱、怜悯、同情和牺牲的精神;或是显示了追求自由平等的决心，如马钉路德·金和南非总统曼德拉，他们在演讲中都表达了誓死捍卫民-主和自由的决心;或是显示了对家庭的爱，并把这种爱升华为“老吾老，以及人之老;幼吾幼，以及人之幼”，如米歇尔·奥巴马，她在演讲中表达了对家庭的热爱，同时也为丈夫竞选呐喊助威----如果巴拉克·奥巴马当选总统，将会保证每个美国人都能享受卫生保健，确保本国的每个孩子都能得到世界一流的教育。精选出的这些演讲名篇题材涉猎广泛，风格迥异。无论你是被其恢宏的气势所震撼，还是被其精深的意蕴所折服，亦或是为其诙谐幽默而莞尔，都能感受到演讲者所传递的共同心声：一定要奋发向上，积极进取，做出个人应有的成绩，为时代，为国家做贡献。

随书赠送的mp3演讲音频，为演讲者的原声音频。这些声音铿锵有力，或给你启迪，或让你感动，或给你温暖，或激发你前行的信念。同时，也让你更有机会品味最地道的英语表达。此外，在每一篇文章之后，都附有提炼出的演讲中具有指引性、励志性的“经典语录”，方便模仿与背诵。地道实用的英语学得多了积累得多了，你就能很自然地表达出极为纯正的英语，既能提升你的书面语表达能力，也可以提升你的口语表达能力。

准备好了吗?让我们从现在开始，去聆听那些温暖人心的声音吧!篇二：名人名校励志英语演讲稿

-----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.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 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 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.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.thank you and god bless you all.篇三：名人英语演讲稿

名人英语演讲稿 tribute to diana 致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞

在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。this is the text of earl spencers tribute to his sister at her funeral.there is some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment.would that those at whom it is aimed would take heed.the versions posted on several news services had minor errors.this is precisely as it was deliverd.i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.we are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but rather in our need to do so.for such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of sunday morning.it is a more remarkable tribute to diana than i can ever hope to offer her today.today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though god granted you but half a life.we will all feel cheated, always, that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all.only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.we have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.there is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory.there is no need to do so.you stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint.indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent you double, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes, your boundless energy which you could barely contain.but your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely.this is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes.and if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives.without your god-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of aids and hiv sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of land mines.diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.the world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty.the last time i saw diana was on july the first, her birthday, in london, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fund-raising charity evening.she sparkled of course, but i would rather cherish the days i spent with her in march when she came to visit me and my children in our home in south africa.i am proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting president mandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her.that meant a lot to her.these were days i will always treasure.it was as if wed been transported back to our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the two youngest in the family.fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends.it is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.there is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time.she talked endlessly of getting away from england, mainly because of the treatment she received at the hands of the newspapers.i dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down.it is baffling.my own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.it is a point to remember that of all the ironies about diana, perhaps the greatest was this;that a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.she would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys william and harry from a similar fate.and i do this here, diana, on your behalf.we will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, i pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.we fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role.but we, like you, recognize the need for them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible, to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead.i know you would have expected nothing less from us.william and harry, we all care desperately for you today.we are all chewed up with sadness at the loss of a woman who wasnt even our mother.how great your suffering is we cannot even imagine.i would like to end by thanking god for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time;for taking diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had joy in her private life.影响你一生的名人励志演讲(视频+mp3+ 演讲稿)--英语演讲专题 kira86 于2012-01-11发布 l 已有6383人浏览 我要评论(0)| 英语专题 | 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《影响你一生的名人励志演讲》收录了19篇英语演讲，演讲者来自政治、经济、文化等各个领域。本书共分为五章，分别为国家领袖、政治人物、商界精英、作家记者和娱乐名人。精选出的这些演讲名篇题材涉猎广泛、风格迥异，有的气势恢宏，意蕴精深；有的轻松诙谐，令人捧腹；有的言辞恳切，语重心长。它们都有一个共同点：演讲者或立足于时代背景下或从个人自身经历出发，鼓舞人奋发向上、积极进取，做出个人应有的成绩，为时代、为国家做贡献。本书配有原版音频，让你最近距离感受这些最具影响力的声音。

国家领袖

梦想与责任——巴拉克·奥巴马（>>查看演讲视频及双语演讲稿）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.即使当你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气、感到其他人对你放弃时，也不要放弃自己，因为当你放弃自己时，你也抛弃了自己的国家。must be strong 我们必须强大——威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿

因为我们大家都在生命的同一旅途上，我们的旅途会有终点。但我们的美国之路必须走下去。the only thing we have to fear is fear itself 我们唯一害怕的是害怕本身——富兰克林·罗斯福（>>查看演讲音频及演讲稿中英对照）the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.我们唯一害怕的 是害怕本身——这种难以名状、失去理智和毫无道理的恐惧，把人转退为进所需的种种努力化为泡影。i am prepared to die for an ideal 为理想我愿献出生命——纳尔逊·曼德拉（>>查看演讲音频及演讲稿中英对照）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.我反对白人统治，也反对黑人统治。我珍视民主和自由社会的理想，在这个社会中，人人和睦相处，机会均等。我希望为这个理想而生，并希望能实现这个理想。但是如果需要，为理想我愿献出生命。

we choose to go to the moon（>>查看演讲视频及英文演讲稿）我们选择登月——约翰·肯尼迪 the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.我们学到的知识越多，认识到的无知就越多。never tiring, never yielding, never finishing 永不疲惫，永不气馁，永不完竭——乔治·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 不疲惫，永不气馁，永不完竭，今天我们重树这样的目标：使我们的国家变得更加公正、更加慷慨，去体现我们每个人和所有人生命的尊严。

政治人物 i have a dream（>>查看演讲音频及英文演讲稿）

我有一个梦想——马丁·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.朋友们，今天我要对你们说，千万不要沉沦在绝望的深谷里。尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦想。这个梦想深深植根于美国梦之中。i quit, but i will continue the fight 我放弃了，但我会继续战斗——希拉里·克林顿 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.当我们有朝一日居住在一个让每个孩子、每个男人、每个女人都享有医疗保障的美国时，我们便拥有了一个更强大的美国。这就是为什么我们要帮助巴拉克·奥巴马竞选总统职位。building the foundations for success 为成功做好准备——安妮·德·萨里斯 knowing who we are and being confident enough to do what matters to us — that’s what counts.了解自己，满怀自信，做好我们认为重要的事情，这才是最重要的。let’s elect barack obama president of usa 让我们选举巴拉克·奥巴马为美利坚合众国总统——米歇尔·奥巴马

商界精英 unleashing your creativity（>>查看演讲稿中英文对照）

释放你的创造力——比尔·盖茨 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，凭借人类与生俱来的发明创造能力和不畏艰难、坚韧不拔的品格，在我的有生之年里我们将在所有这些领域都创造出可喜的成就。grab your dreams when it shows up 当梦想来临时抓住它——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!总而言之，我知道这个世界看起来已支离破碎，但这确实是你们人生中一个伟大的时代，你们可以疯狂一点，追随你们的好奇心，积极进取。不要放弃梦想。世界需要你们。we are what we choose（>>查看演讲稿视频及双语演讲稿）

选择塑造人生——杰夫·贝索斯 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.聪明是一种天赋，而善良是 一种选择。天赋得来很容易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择却颇为艰难。如果一不小心，你可能被天赋所诱惑，这可能会损害到你做出的选择。

作家记者 the spirit of man 人类的精神——威廉·福克纳 tribute to diana（>>查看英文演讲稿）

致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞

在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。

follow your bliss, follow your heart（>>查看演讲音频及英文演讲稿）

追随你的幸福,倾听你的心声——安德森·库珀 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.但这次失败却成了我人生中最有价值的经历。我下定决心，如果没人给我机会，我就自己寻找机会；如果没人给我机会，我就自己创造机会。

娱乐名人 failure is an option, but fear is not（>>查看演讲视频及演讲稿中英双语对照）

失败是一个选项，但畏惧不是——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，这是我想给你的想法，不管你做什么，失败是 一个选项，但畏惧不是。feelings, failure and finding happiness(点我去查看奥普拉演讲视频和双语演讲稿)感觉、失败及寻找幸福——奥普拉·温弗瑞

——美国著名电视节目主持人奥普拉·温弗瑞2008年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上发表的演讲

1、奥斯特洛夫斯基

命运对奥斯特洛夫斯基是残酷的：他念过三年小学，青春消逝在疾驰的战马与枪林弹雨中。16岁时，他腹部与头部严重负伤，右眼失明。20岁时，又因关节硬化而卧床不起。面对着命运的严峻挑战，他深切地感到：“在生活中没比掉队更可怕的事情了。”奥斯特洛夫斯基与命运进行了英勇的抗争：他不想躺在残废荣誉军人的功劳簿上向祖国和人民伸手，他用沸腾的精力读完了函授大学的全部课程，如饥似渴地阅读俄罗斯与世界文学名著。书籍召唤他前进，书籍陪伴他披荆斩棘。奥斯特洛夫斯基思想的烈马，驰骋在乌克兰与波兰交界的辽阔的原野上，他口授的每一个字母都像无情的子弹，射向入侵的德国强盗。2.张海迪 1955年秋天在济南出生。5岁患脊髓病，胸以下全部瘫痪。从那时起，张海迪开始了她独到的人生。她无法上学，便在在家自学完中学课程。在残酷的命运挑战面前，张海迪没有沮丧和沉沦，她以顽强的毅力和恒心与疾病做斗争，经受了严峻的考验，对人生充满了信心。她虽然没有机会走进校门，却发愤学习，学完了小学、中学全部课程，自学了大学英语、日语、德语和世界语，并攻读了大学和硕士研究生的课程。为了对社会作出更大的贡献，她先后自学了十几种医学专著，同时向有经验的医生请教，学会了针灸等医术，为群众无偿治疗

达1万多人次。

我们都是四肢健全的人，所以更我们应该珍惜眼前的学习机会。3.爱迪生

在爱迪生发明灯泡的时候他失败了很多次，当他用到一千多种材料做灯丝的时候，助手对他说：“你已经失败了一千多次了，成功已经变得渺茫，还是放弃吧！”但爱迪生却说：“到现在我的收获还不错，起码我发现有一千多种材料不能做灯丝。”最后，他经过六千多次的实验终于成功了。

我们可以试想，如果爱迪生在助手劝他停止实验的时候放弃了，我们现在会怎么样呢？可能我们还要点只有豆粒般大小的油灯在夜里照明。其实爱迪生的每次试验失败都可以看作是挫折。这么一算，爱迪生发明电灯也就是遇上了六千多次的挫折，这是一个多么惊人的数目啊！4.林肯

生下来就一贫如洗的林肯，终其一生都在面对挫败，八次竞选八次落败，两次经商失败，甚至还精神崩溃过一次。好多次，他本可以放弃，但他并没有如此，也正因为 他没有放弃，才成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。此路艰辛而泥泞。我一只脚滑了一下，另一只脚也因而站不稳;但我缓口气，告诉自己，这不过是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬

不起来。——林肯在竞选参议员落败后如是说

我们有的时候受到一次挫折，或经受到一次失败，就灰心丧气，认为自己一无是处，看看爱迪生和林肯，我们就会明白人的一生不是一帆风顺的，关键是学会坚持，永不放弃。4.霍金

霍金虽然身体的残疾越来越重，但却力图像普通人一样生活，完成自己所能做的任何事情。他甚至是活泼好动的——这听起来有些好笑，在他已经完全无法移动之后，他仍然坚持用唯一可以活动的手指驱动着轮椅在前往办公室的路上“横冲直撞”； ·威廉·霍金认为他一生的贡献是在经典物理的框架里，证明了黑洞和大爆炸奇点的不可避免性，黑洞越变越大；但在量子物理的框架里，他指出，黑洞因辐射而越变越小，大爆炸的奇点不断被量子效应所抹平，而且整个宇宙正是起始于此。

第二篇：名人名校励志英语演讲稿

名人名校励志英语演讲稿：Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱---美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿耶鲁大学演讲

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.要敢于竞争，敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，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.

第三篇：名人名校励志英语演讲稿

Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱---美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿耶鲁大学演讲

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.要敢于竞争，敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，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.

第四篇：名人励志演讲稿

名人励志演讲稿——易中天：这是我的选择

非常感谢大家的欢迎，但我得实事求是地说，我很不情愿地站在这，因为我很怕来到这里，又被贴上一个标签叫青年导师，我身上标签够多的了，用得最 多的叫学术超男，我真的不想再贴上一个标签叫青年导师。我今天来只是想和我们的青年朋友们在一起探讨、交流、分享，如果说有导师的话，我希望你们也同时是 我的导师，我们互为导师。

请问十八岁的时候，你们在想什么，干什么?高考? 都在高考!我十八岁的时候干了什么呢?我十八岁的时候做了一个勇敢的决定，参加新疆生产建设兵团，那么我为什么做这样一个勇敢的决定呢?读了这本书，这本 书是苏联作家维拉凯斯特林卡亚写的，它的名字叫——《勇敢》，它描述的呢是莫斯科和列宁格勒的一批共青团员到西伯利亚，就是苏联的远东去建设一座共青城，我读了这本书以后热血沸腾，我说我也去，我也写一本中国的《勇敢》，我要成为中国的维拉凯斯特林卡亚，坚决去了。而且还非常幸运的是到了乌鲁木齐以后分单 位，就把我分到了农八师共青团农场，我马上就想起了一首歌，而且我就是唱着这个歌去的，这首歌叫《共青团员之歌》，有会唱的吗?我们告别了亲爱的妈妈，请 你吻别你的儿子吧，再见吧妈妈，别难过，莫悲伤，祝福我们一路平安吧„„走了，根本没有考虑妈妈的感受，后来我爸才告诉我，我妈每天晚上哭，就是要去。

要实现自己的目标，实现自己的理想，但是去了以后，才发现，那个被诗意地描述过的地方，证明了 生活不是诗，等待着我们的是无法形容的寂寞，单调、劳累、纠结，我就住进了牛棚跟牛住在一块，第一天干活干什么?挤牛奶!我就上去挤，根本挤不出来。名人 励志演讲稿——易中天：这是我的选择。老职工就跟我说，不是这样挤的，你得先让小牛吃一口，把它奶胀出来，我说这小牛怎么弄呢?他说你把这小牛放了让它吃 吧，小牛栓在旁边，我把小牛解开了，小牛冲过去，一口咬住了，就吃奶，我在旁边看着。老职工说，你怎么还看着?它都吃完了，你还挤什么?我说这怎么弄呢? 你拽过来啊!好吧，我去拽那牛，根本拽不动!出生牛犊不怕虎，它还怕我吗?好不容易拽过来，又把它拴上，它又挣脱了。挤了大概这么多，母牛发现了，很愤怒 地一脚就把奶桶踢翻了，然后顺便也给了我一脚，这老职工说你怎么这么笨!

后来班长过来说，要不你去放牛吧，班长给了我一根棍，这么长，很结实的棍，我说拿棍干嘛呢?打狼啊?他说狼倒是没有，打牛，牛不听话你就打它，我没管这个，我就带了本书，装在口袋里，赶着牛出去了，出去以后牛在那吃草，我就看书，看了一会，一看，牛没了!只有一头牛还在跟前，正准备往前冲，我赶 快拎着棍子过去我就，你站住!你上哪去?牛看了我一眼，然后走了，最后我的跟前，一头牛都没有，然后只好拎着棍子一个一个去赶牛，然后就很快把我从畜牧班 调出来，我到了大田班，然后在兵团干完了所有的，几乎所有的脏活、累活、苦活、比方说有一种活叫脱裤腿，就是棉花苗长到这么高的时候，要把棉花苗下面的两 片叶子把它打掉，因为它苗只有这么高，你这样是够不着的，得跪下来，跪下来以后两只手去弄，然后膝行，一爬就是一天，兵团的田叫条田，那个条田叫一望无 际，根本看不到头，你每天必须从这一头爬到那一头，然后把另外两行的叶子打完，再爬回来，这一天的活就算干完了，你要是速度不够，你回不了家，你根本回不 来。那个时候我看着那一望无际的条田，我就想，我的希望在哪里，现在很多年轻人说，我看不到希望，看不到希望，你到条田去看看!

后悔吗?不后悔!因为那是我自己的决定，我不后悔，我到现在都认为，当我服从自己的内心最强烈的冲动的时候，不管它的结局是怎么样，不管将来我 会吃多少苦，我无怨无悔。选择即负责!人生能有几回“二”，何不潇洒“二”一回。所以我到今天还很“二”，我的“二”劲一直保留下来，就是在那么艰苦的环 境下，我想我既然是做了这个梦，虽然生活不是诗，虽然生活没有像我想想象的那样，可以给我提供那么多素材，让我成为一位伟大的作家，但是我的梦我得继续做 下去。所以我当时读了很多的书，而且正是由于这样一个积累，最后让我考上了武汉大学。我毕业以后，住过办公室，住过筒子楼，一直很艰苦很艰苦地过来，我现在很清楚的记得1998年，厦门大学房改，学校分给我一套房子，因为那时候我已经是教授了，112平方，七打折，八打折，折下来，你们猜多少钱?三万!不是每平方啊，总价!我买不起!

我后来为什么要去做电视呢?我为什么要去上《百家讲坛》呢?不是那些媒体猜测的，说什么你上了《百家讲坛》，你就大红大紫，你就能出名，你就能 挣很多钱!根本不是这样，那时候谁上《百家讲坛》挣钱啊?做一期节目，1000块钱，扣掉税，960，我算了一个很简单的账，一个月播四期，是4000块 钱，一年做下来48000，就这么简单的动机就去了。我觉得我这一生好像很多事情我是没有想过的，我真的没有想很多很多，我也没什么纠结，轻轻松松就去 了，但总是有得有失，我就想明白，我既然是有得有失，我为什么不“二”一把,我绝不想我做成能有什么好处，那么我只考虑一个问题，一旦做砸了，我要承担的 那个代价。我是担得起，还是担不起。如果这个代价我是负担得起，做!

2005年我上《百家讲坛》，2006年《品三国》，我也不想谦虚了，装谦虚，确实出名了!两件事告诉我，我

出名了!第一件事情，我在香港遇到一对老夫妇，过来说，你是不是易中天，第二件事情就是2006年，八月份，《品三国》在北京首发，当时西单图 书大厦，被排队来签名的读者团团围住，把西单图书大厦围了一个圈以后，还排不过来，从地下车库穿过去，一直穿到居民区，然后居民打110报警，北京市西城 区公安分局来了一个副局长，17辆警车，100个警员维持秩序，这大概就是世俗眼睛里的成功吧，同样按照世俗的眼光，我易中天好歹也算是功成名就，同样按 照这样的眼光，我应该含饴弄孙，安享晚年，但是我突然有一种冲动，我决定要写一部三十六卷史的《易中天中华史》。就是像这样的一本书，要写36本，又是 什么概念呢?两个月写一本，得6年，而两个月是写不了一本的，因此得8年，到8年，就接近李昌钰的年龄了，我不知道到那时候能不能像李昌钰一样，把小撒放 翻了。当时消息发布以后，就有人表态说，这事如果不是易老师疯了，就是我疯了。可是我就是想做啊，我就是内心有一种强烈的冲动，我就是想写这么一部东西，我现在可以告诉诸位的是，已经出到第八本了，我还会写下去，一直到无能为力为止。

非常巧的是，前不久参加中央电视台的一档纪录片的拍摄，纪录片叫《客从何处来》，到了湖北省图书馆，拍这个纪录片我才知道，图书馆里放着我曾祖 父的一套书，叫《太平草木萌芽录》，而且最神奇的是，我发现这本书里面，我曾祖父给他的子孙有一条遗训，自叙平生志愿，荣华富贵皆在所后，惟望子孙留心正 学，他年蔚为名儒，则真使吾九原含笑矣，群孙勉乎哉!我这个时候我才神奇地知道，我居然是在完成曾祖父的遗愿，通过这次拍摄我也才知道，我身上的这股劲，这个力量，被《客从何处来》剧组称之为血脉遗产!

第五篇：名人励志演讲稿

名人励志演讲稿1

老师们，同学们:

大家下午好！我今天演讲的题目是《再“坏”一点，希望就会降临》。

克劳德·艾金斯，从小智力低下，学习成绩一塌糊涂，但总算凑合上了高中。父母眼见得儿子上大学无望，希望他能在体育上有所发展，便托人把儿子弄到学校篮球队。但克劳德·艾金斯低能的智商很让教练失望，动作总是不得要领，一个简单的罚球动作，就够他无休无止地练习了，他因此被大家送了个绰号“出色的罚球手”。

那是一次很重要的比赛，克劳德·艾金斯所在的球队被对手打得落花流水，队员和教练已无心再战，但比赛还是要打完的，有队员建议教练，反正也打不赢，就让从未上过场的克劳德·艾金斯去露露脸。

克劳德·艾金斯兴奋无比地披挂上阵了，一有罚球，队员便把球传给他，他虽然信心百倍，但每次总是把球投丢，如此反复，他却乐此不疲。以至后来，对方队员竟和他开玩笑，把自己队的罚球也传给他，但他不管不顾，依然专心投篮，球仍屡投不进。尽管如此，观众还是以热烈的掌声鼓励他，这让克劳德·艾金斯更加兴奋。就在离终场最后3秒钟时，奇迹出现了，克劳德·艾金斯又接到一个传球，他不慌不忙，微笑着把球投了出去，只见那球在空中划过一个漂亮的弧线，然后稳稳当当地落进了篮筐内。顿时全场沸腾了，观众起立为克劳德·艾金斯欢呼鼓掌，他也为自己有生以来投进的第一个球欣喜若狂，激动得脱掉了上衣，一边高喊挥舞，一边满场狂奔。

赛后有评论说，克劳德·艾金斯无疑是此次比赛的最后赢家。 就是那唯一的进球，让克劳德·艾金斯的人生发生了翻天覆地的变化。高中毕业后虽屡遭磨难，但他总把最后3秒钟创造的奇迹当做激励奋斗的灯塔，他坚信，自己一定是笑到最后的那个人。

当地电视台有个《非9点新闻》栏目招聘演员，克劳德·艾金斯勇敢地去应聘，有人讥笑他自不量力，他仍憨厚地笑着我行我素。他滑稽幽默的表演，让导演喜不自禁，当即拍板录用了他，并让他担任主演。他主演的.《憨豆先生》几乎一夜之间风靡全球，并与金凯利、周星驰一起被称为“当代最伟大的喜剧之王”。

成功后的克劳德·艾金斯不时会说起那场令人刻骨铭心的球赛，正是那看似让他出丑的罚球表演，却让他得到了观众前所未有的关爱，享受到了人间无限的真情温暖，为以后开发他身上蕴藏着的巨大表演潜能做了极好的铺垫。

生活中，往往看起来已经是很“坏”的事情，如果再让它“坏”一点，在“坏”到极致的一瞬间，希望的曙光却会在刹那间显现。

我的演讲结束了，谢谢大家！

名人励志演讲稿2

20世纪最具影响力的英国思想家罗素，在1924年来到中国的四川。那个时候的中国，正逢军阀割据的时代，战乱频频，山河破碎，民不聊生。罗素刚写完他的巨著《幸福论》，他希望以自己的思想教化引导中国人摆脱苦难。当时正值夏天，四川的天气非常闷热。罗素和陪同他的几个人坐着那种两人抬的竹轿上峨嵋山。山路非常陡峭险峻，几位轿夫累得大汗淋漓。作为一个思想家和文学家的罗素，此情此景，没有了心情观赏峨嵋山的景观，而是思考起几位轿夫的心情来。他想，轿夫们一定痛恨他们几位坐轿的.人，这样热的天气，还要他们抬着上山。甚至他们或许正在思考，为什么自己是抬轿的人而不是坐轿的人?

罗素思考着的时候，到了山腰的一个小平台，陪同的人让轿夫停下来休息。罗素下了竹轿，认真地观察轿夫的表情。他看到轿夫们坐成行，拿出烟斗，又说又笑，讲着很开心的事情，丝毫没有怪怨天气和坐轿人的意思，也丝毫没有对自己的命运感到悲苦的意思。他们还饶有趣味地给罗素讲自己家乡的笑话，很好奇地问罗素一些外国的事情。他们在交谈中不时发出高兴的笑声。

罗素在他的《中国人的性格》一文中讲到了这个故事。而且，他因此得出了一个著名的人生观点：用自以为是的眼光看待别人的幸福是错误的。

莎士比亚在谈到人生的处境时曾经有过一个很经典的比喻，他说：我们的身心就是一个园圃，而我们的主观意志就是园圃的园丁。不论我们是种植奇花异草或单独培植一种树木，还是任其荒芜，那权力都在我们自己。也就是说，你假如愿意自己是快乐幸福的，你自己就可以做到，权力都在你自己的手里。一切都在我们个人的主观意志之中。我们可以让自己的生活充满喜悦，我们也可以让自己的生活丰富多彩。境由心造，不论我们处于什么境地，我们都可以把它当作自己的福地。成功的时候，尽情地享受成功;逆境的时候，为未来的希望快乐。

坐轿子的人未必是幸福的，抬轿子的人未必不是幸福的。

名人励志演讲稿3

亲爱的老师、同学们：

我喜爱的一句读书名言是高尔基的“书籍是人类进步的阶梯。”我有一个关于这句名言的故事我来讲给大家讲讲这个真实的.故事吧。

有一次，一至二年级时我不怎么喜欢，成绩一直一般般，直到三年级第一次单元考试我的成绩一下子提了上去，你们知道为什么吗？因为放假期间我看了许多书，后来四年级第一单元考试时我竟然比三年级时少了分数，因为我放假期间回了老家，结果没带课外书所以就没有看书。

还有一次，课堂上写作文，我想了半天都想不到写什么，这时我翻开作文书一看，情不自禁地小声说：“原来可以这样写，于是，我就从书中的方向写，没想到得了个A。

真是”书籍是人类进步的阶梯。“我真是进步了许多，这都亏了书籍，这句名言非常值得我们去理解。

名人励志演讲稿4

亲爱的老师、同学们：

名人讲了许多名言，名言让我们受到启发，我最喜欢的名言是“一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。”这句名言让我受到很多启示。

记得有一次，我那时刚上一年级，我就整天顾着玩，上课跟同学们说话，没有认真听老师讲课，作业一点儿也没有做。下课了，和同学们追跑。到了学期末，考试才考七十多分，我同桌看我这么不认真学习，她对我亲切地说：“同学，你学习太不认真了，整天都顾着玩，所以你的成绩才这么差。”你没听过：“一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴”吗？我听了同学说的这句话，回家查了资料，原来这句名言是说，时间比黄金还宝贵，有再多的钱也买不到时间，劝勉我们要珍惜时间。于是，我把这句名言抄写下来，贴在房间里，时刻来提醒和约束自己。我每天都非常努力地去学习，上课时，我全神贯注地学习，认真听讲。下课了，我不跟同学们追跑，自己利用课外时间，多看一些书，我还给自己定了一个时间表，每天按时间表完成那些事情。尽量不要浪费时间，因为我的'努力，我的成绩很快赶上来。

有人说：“时间像块海棉，挤一挤，肯定会有的。”浪费时间就等于浪费自己的生命，如果不珍惜时间，不认真学习，长大了就虚度一生。俗话说：“少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲”。这句名言将永远激励我前进。珍惜时间就等于珍惜金钱，这就是我的一句名言的启示。

名人励志演讲稿5

老师们，同学们：

大家下午好！我今天演讲的题目是《生命是“1”》。

布莱恩让是泰国著名耍蛇人，且他耍的不是一般的蛇，而是令人毛骨悚然的剧毒眼镜蛇。 ，26岁的布莱恩让和一千条眼镜蛇同在一个玻璃柜中“同居”了整整7天而安然无恙，创下当时的吉尼斯纪录，被誉为世界“蛇王”，闻名全球。

20xx年3月19日，泰国气候炎热，空气沉闷。许多人从曼谷开车赶赴布莱恩让的住所，观看他高超的耍蛇技艺。布莱恩让和往常一样，把一条条“驯服有素”的眼镜蛇从竹筒里倒出来和他一起表演。其间，一条眼镜蛇屡次不听“号令”，蜷盘着长长的身子赖在舒适、清凉的竹筒里，但抵挡不住主人的“威逼利诱”，很不情愿地登台表演。

布莱恩让十分娴熟地操控着几十条眼镜蛇，任它们自由灵活地游弋、穿行并缠绕在自己的身体上。突然，就是刚才企图赖在竹筒里偷懒的那条蛇，猛地对布莱恩让发起攻击，在他的胳膊肘上咬了一口，鲜血立刻流了出来。观众们被这突如其来的意外吓坏了，诧异地叫出声来，纷纷提醒并劝说布莱恩让去医院治疗。布莱恩让脸上显出几分尴尬，额上沁出许多汗珠，但他却装做什么事也没发生一样，继续着表演。可是，观众们发现，布莱恩让原本从容、利落的动作逐渐凌乱、迟钝，且大汗淋漓。大家再次劝阻他停止表演，赶紧救治。然而，布莱恩让尽管已头晕目眩、呼吸困难，明显地感到力不从心，但他仍强撑着坚持摇头说：“不行，没事的。我的表演从来没有出现过这样的差错和失误......”接下来，他的情形越来越糟糕，而他却坚持不肯中断表演。大家面面相觑，交头接耳一番后，心照不宣地纷纷快速离去，好使布莱恩让抛却“面子”，抓紧时间救治。 观众刚一离开，布莱恩让就像醉汉一般倒在地上。家人连忙把他送到最近的医院。可是，医生检查后却十分痛心地说：眼镜蛇的毒素已侵袭了他的整个中枢神经和心脏。年仅34岁的蛇王布莱恩让停止了呼吸，一命呜呼。曾经的荣誉和称号，随着他生命的终结，成为永久的回忆。

非常奇妙的是：就在同一天，地球的另一端，布莱恩让的.同行———美国知名耍蛇人大

卫，也在表演过程中遭到袭击，一条眼镜蛇在他的腹部狠狠咬了一口。遭到攻击后，大卫立刻示意摄像师和助手停止表演，并用双手不停地往外挤压伤口处的毒血，遏止毒素蔓延和扩散的速度。同时驾车赶赴就近的医院寻求帮助和救治。医院动用直升机，在最短的时间内，调来抗毒蛇血清为大卫注射。大卫最终得到了救治，几个星期后痊愈出院。大卫为什么能蛇口逃生？因为，大卫为自己的生命赢得了宝贵的时间；而布莱恩让顾及颜面，为保全“蛇王”的名声，耽搁了救治时间。

不错，名誉是人的第二生命。但是，第二生命毕竟不是第一生命啊！我们常说“留得青山在，不怕没柴烧”。什么是青山？青山就是身体、生命。当你能保住生命，就能开创无限的未来。生命好比数字“1”，如果没有这个“1”，后面纵使加无数个“0”，最后的结果不还是零吗？

我的演讲结束了，谢谢大家！

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老师们，同学们：

大家下午好!我今天演讲的题目是《不肯放弃的林肯》。

坚持到底的'实例可能就是亚伯拉罕·林肯。如果你想知道有谁从末放弃，那就不必再寻寻觅觅了!

生下来就一贫如洗的林肯，终其一生都在面对挫败，八次竞选八次落败，两次经商失败，甚至还精神崩溃过一次。好多次，他本可以放弃，但他并没有如此，也正因为他没有放弃，才成为美国历最伟大的总统之一。

以下是林肯进驻白宫前的简历：

18，家人被赶出了居住的地方，他必须工作以抚养他们;18，母亲去世;1831年，经商失败;1832年，竞选州议员但落选了;1832年，工作也丢了，想就读法学院，但进不去;1833年，向朋友借钱经商，但年底就破产了，接下来他花了十六年，才把债还清;1834年，再次竞选州议员，赢了!1835年，订婚后即将结婚时，末婚妻却死了，因此他的心也碎了;1836年，精神完全崩溃，卧病在床六个月;1838年，争取成为州议员的发言人，没有成功;1840年，争取成为选举人了，失败了;1843年，参加国会大选落选了;1846年，再次参加国会大选这次当选了!前往华盛顿特区，表现可圈可点;1848年，寻求国会议员连任失败了!

1849年，想在自己的州内担任土地局长的工作，被拒绝了!1854年，竞选美国参议员，落选了;1856年，在共和党的全国代表大会上争取副总统的提名，得票不到一百张;1858年，再度竞选美国参议员一一再度落败;1860年，当选美国总统。

此路艰辛而泥泞。我一只脚滑了一下，另一只脚也因而站不稳;但我缓口气，告诉自己，“这不过是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬不起来。”--林肯在竞选参议员落败后如是说。

我的演讲结束了，谢谢大家!

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生下来就一贫如洗的`林肯，终其一生都在面对挫败，八次竞选八次落败，两次经商失败，甚至还精神崩溃过一次。好多次，他本可以放弃，但他并没有如此，也正因为他没有放弃，才成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。此路艰辛而泥泞。我一只脚滑了一下，另一只脚也因而站不稳;但我缓口气，告诉自己，“这不过是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬不起来。”——林肯在竞选参议员落败后如是说我们有的时候受到一次挫折，或经受到一次失败，就灰心丧气，认为自己一无是处，看看爱迪生和林肯，我们就会明白人的一生不是一帆风顺的，关键是学会坚持，永不放弃。

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亲爱的老师、同学们：

有一次，我和妈妈去沭河公园玩，树上有几只小鸟儿，它们煽动娇嫩的羽翼学飞呢！它们一次次煽动翅膀，一次次，一次次……就在它们飞起的刹那，妈妈突然对我说：“记住，宝贝儿，‘世上无难事，只怕有心人。’”“嗯！”我一双澄澈的眼睛凝望着小鸟飞过的痕迹。

记得有一次数学考试，我差点儿与成功擦肩而过。就当我即将做完试卷的.时候，我那一直在发出沙沙的写字声忽然没了，这是为什么呢？哦，原来我遇上了一道难度很高的应用题，我想了半天也没想出来。就在这时，我的脑子里蹦出了四个字——画线段图。

对呀，于是我便急急忙忙打开打草本，根据题意画出线段。可是，又有一个困难挡住了我前进的脚步——我算了两遍，竟然的得出了两种不同的答案。我又开始验算，啊，终于算出来了，原来是第一次算出的答案正确呀！我长舒一口气，满意地交上了试卷。等发下试卷的时候，我急忙看那道题，耶！对了！

“世上无难事，只怕有心人。”妈妈的话让我一生受用不尽。

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亲爱的老师、同学们：

“虚心使人进步，骄傲使人落后”这句话，是伟人毛泽东主席说的。

这句话的意义在于告诫那些稍有成就，便沾沾自喜、自我满足的人，务必谦虚谨慎，戒骄戒躁，争取更大的'进步。

在这个问题上，我是有过教训的。三年二级的期末考试，我有幸获全班和全年级第一名。老师的表扬，同学们的赞许，爸妈的夸奖，使我得意忘形，飘飘然起来。爷爷一方面肯定，一方面提醒，要我千万别骄傲，别自满，可我没当回事，反而认为自己天生聪明，脑瓜灵活。于是该看的书不看了，该做的题不做了，有时上课也不专心听老师讲，一知半解的东西也不再去打破砂锅问到底了。四年级下学期期末考试，数学和科学考得很不理想，别说全年级第一，就是全班，仅得了个第三。

我很不好意思地把实情告诉爷爷，硬着头皮等着受训挨罚。爷爷不但没有发脾气，反而给我讲了个富有哲理的故事：三个瓶子，其中一个装满了水，一个没一点水，一个装半瓶水，晃动瓶子，装满水的瓶子和没水的瓶子都不会响，只有那装一半水的瓶子，响得厉害。听了这个故事，我明白了，自己就是那装着半瓶水的瓶子。

那半瓶水成了我骄傲的资本，由年级第一退到全班第三，这样的教训能不吸取吗?

虚心是进步的推动力，骄傲是进步的拦路虎，这就是“虚心使人进步，骄傲使人落后”给我的启示。

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尊敬的老师们，同学们：

大家下午好！我今天演讲的题目是《不肯放弃的林肯》。

坚持到底的最佳实例可能就是亚伯拉罕·林肯。如果你想知道有谁从末放弃，那就不必再寻寻觅觅了！

生下来就一贫如洗的林肯，终其一生都在面对挫败，八次竞选八次落败，两次经商失败，甚至还精神崩溃过一次。好多次，他本可以放弃，但他并没有如此，也正因为他没有放弃，才成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。

以下是林肯进驻白宫前的简历：

18，家人被赶出了居住的地方，他必须工作以抚养他们；18，母亲去世；1831年，经商失败；1832年，竞选州议员但落选了；1832年，工作也丢了，想就读法学院，但进不去；1833年，向朋友借钱经商，但年底就破产了，接下来他花了十六年，才把债还清；1834年，再次竞选州议员，赢了！1835年，订婚后即将结婚时，末婚妻却死了，因此他的心也碎了；1836年，精神完全崩溃，卧病在床六个月；1838年，争取成为州议员的`发言人，没有成功；1840年，争取成为选举人了，失败了；1843年，参加国会大选落选了；1846年，再次参加国会大选这次当选了！前往华盛顿特区，表现可圈可点；1848年，寻求国会议员连任失败了！

1849年，想在自己的州内担任土地局长的工作，被拒绝了！1854年，竞选美国参议员，落选了；1856年，在共和党的全国代表大会上争取副总统的提名，得票不到一百张；1858年，再度竞选美国参议员一一再度落败；1860年，当选美国总统。

此路艰辛而泥泞。我一只脚滑了一下，另一只脚也因而站不稳；但我缓口气，告诉自己，“这不过是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬不起来。”——林肯在竞选参议员落败后如是说。

我的演讲结束了，谢谢大家！

演讲人：xxx

20xx年xx月xx日

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对于英语学习者来说，多听多看多练英语演讲是学地道英语的最佳有效途径之一，也是训练语音语调最有效的辅助手段。你不用担心这些演讲是否有语法问题，也不用担心用词是否准确，表达是否到位。因为一些名人的演讲稿通常是字斟句酌精心完成的。此外，通过演讲学英语还可以潜移默化地帮助自己提升对英文的驾驭能力，增强英语的语感和美感。

本书精选了19篇具有代表性的名人的英语演讲。这些名人或是国家领袖，或是关心民权民生的政治人物，或是创造经济财富的精英，或是用文字抒发情怀的作家记者，或是演艺界的娱乐名人。他们都在自己的领域里作出了杰出的贡献。他们思想深刻，见解独到，注定是站在时代前列的人。

这些名人的演讲充满了智慧，富含启迪。它们或是结合自身经历立足于个人发展的.谆谆教诲，像亚马逊ceo杰夫·贝索斯在普林斯顿大学演讲，他讲了自己创业的故事，以此鼓励毕业生：未来掌握在自己的手中，追寻自己的梦

想，慎重选择;或是号召民众面对困难迎难而上，像美国第32任总统富兰克林·罗斯福，他就任于美国经济大萧条时期，国内民生凋敝，萎靡不振，他告诉大家，我们惟一害怕的是害怕本身，展示了带领民众走出低谷的豪情;或者充满人文关怀，如美国著名作家威廉·福克纳，站在人类精神的高度，勉励作家文人心中时时充满爱、怜悯、同情和牺牲的精神;或是显示了追求自由平等的决心，如马钉路德·金和南非总统曼德拉，他们在演讲中都表达了誓死捍卫民主和自由的决心;或是显示了对家庭的爱，并把这种爱升华为“老吾老，以及人之老;幼吾幼，以及人之幼”，如米歇尔·噢吧吗，她在演讲中表达了对家庭的热爱，同时也为丈夫竞选呐喊助威----如果巴拉克·噢吧吗当选总统，将会保证每个美国人都能享受卫生保健，确保本国的每个孩子都能得到世界一流的教育。精选出的这些演讲名篇题材涉猎广泛，风格迥异。无论你是被其恢宏的气势所震撼，还是被其精深的意蕴所折服，亦或是为其诙谐幽默而莞尔，都能感受到演讲者所传递的共同心声：一定要奋发向上，积极进取，做出个人应有的成绩，为时代，为国家做贡献。

随书赠送的mp3演讲音频，为演讲者的原声音频。这些声音铿锵有力，或给你启迪，或让你感动，或给你温暖，或激发你前行的信念。同时，也让你更有机会品味最地道的英语表达。此外，在每一篇文章之后，都附有提炼出的演讲中具有指引性、励志性的“经典语录”，方便模仿与背诵。地道实用的英语学得多了积累得多了，你就能很自然地表达出极为纯正的英语，既能提升你的书面语表达能力，也可以提升你的口语表达能力。

准备好了吗?让我们从现在开始，去聆听那些温暖人心的声音吧!

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大家好!

没有人能只依靠天分成功。上帝给予了天分，勤奋将天分变为天才。

曾国藩是中国历最有影响的人物之一，然而他小时候的.天赋却不高。有一天在家读书，对一篇重复不知道多少遍了，还在朗读，因为，他还没有背下来。这时候他家来了一个贼，潜伏在他的屋檐下，希望等读书人睡觉之后捞点好处。可是等啊等，就是不见他睡觉，还是翻来复去地读那篇文章。贼人大怒，跳出来说，“这种水平读什么书?”然后将那文章背诵一遍，扬长而去!

“勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。”那贼的真好，听过几遍的文章都能背下来，而且很勇敢，见别人不睡觉居然可以跳出来“大怒”，教训曾先生之后，还要背书，扬长而去。但是遗憾的是，他名不经传，曾先生后来启用了一大批人才，按说这位贼人与曾先生有一面之交，大可去施展一二，可惜，他的天赋没有加上勤奋，变得不知所终。

励志感悟：伟大的成功和辛勤的劳动是成正比的，有一分劳动就有一分收获，日积月累，从少到多，奇迹就可以创造出来。

谢谢大家!

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各位同学、各位领导：

大家上午好！非常高兴校长给我这么崇高的荣誉，谈一谈我在北大的体会。可以说，北大是改变了我一生的地方，是提升了我自己的地方，使我从一个农村孩子最后走向了世界的地方。毫不夸张地说，没有北大，肯定就没有我的今天。北大给我留下了一连串美好的回忆，大概也留下了一连串的痛苦。正是在美好和痛苦中间，在挫折、挣扎和进步中间，最后找到了自我，开始为自己、为家庭、为社会能做一点事情。

学生生活是非常美好的，有很多美好的回忆。我还记得我们班有一个男生，每天都在女生的宿舍楼下拉小提琴，希望能够引起女生的注意，结果后来被女生扔了水瓶子。我还记得我自己为了吸引女生的注意，每到寒假和暑假都帮着女生扛包。后来我发现那个女生有男朋友，我就问她为什么还要让我扛包，她说为了让男朋友休息一下。我也记得刚进北大的时候我不会讲普通话，全班同学第一次开班会的时候互相介绍，我站起来自我介绍了一番，结果我们的班长站起来跟我说：“俞敏洪你能不能不讲日语？”我后来用了整整一年时间，拿着收音机在北大的树林中模仿广播台的播音，但是到今天普通话还依然讲得不好。

人的进步可能是一辈子的事情。在北大是我们生活的一个开始，而不是结束。有很多事情特别让人感动。比如说，我们很有幸见过朱光潜教授。在他最后的日子里，是我们班的同学每天轮流推着轮椅在北大里陪他一起散步。每当我推着轮椅的时候，我心中就充满了对朱光潜教授的崇拜，一种神圣感油然而生。所以，我在大学看书最多的领域是美学。因为他写了一本《西方美学史》，是我进大学以后读的第二本书。

为什么是第二本呢？因为第一本是这样来的，我进北大以后走进宿舍，我有个同学已经在宿舍。那个同学躺在床上看一本书，叫做《第三帝国的兴亡》。所以我就问了他一句话，我说：“在大学还要读这种书吗？”他把书从眼睛上拿开，看了我一眼，没理我，继续读他的书。这一眼一直留在我心中。我知道进了北大不仅仅是来学专业的，要读大量大量的书。你才能够有资格把自己叫做北大的学生。所以我在北大读的第一本书就是《第三帝国的兴亡》，而且读了三遍。后来我就去找这个同学，我说：“咱们聊聊《第三帝国的兴亡》”，他说：“我已经忘了。”我也记得我的导师李赋宁教授，原来是北大英语系的主任，他给我们上《新概念英语》第四册的时候，每次都把板书写得非常的完整，非常的`美丽。永远都是从黑板的左上角写起，等到下课铃响起的时候，刚好写到右下角结束。我还记得我的英国文学史的老师罗经国教授，我在北大最后一年由于心情不好，导致考试不及格。我找到罗教授说：“这门课如果我不及格就毕不了业。”，罗教授说：“我可以给你一个及格的分数，但是请你记住了，未来你一定要做出值得我给你分数的事业。”所以，北大老师的宽容、学识、奔放、自由，让我们真正能够成为北大的学生，真正能够得到北大的精神。当我听说许智宏校长对学生唱《隐形的翅膀》的时候，我打开视频，感动得热泪盈眶。因为我觉得北大的校长就应该是这样的。我记得自己在北大的时候有很多的苦闷。一是普通话不好，第二英语水平一塌糊涂。尽管我高考经过三年的努力考到了北大——因为我落榜了两次，最后一次很意外地考进了北大。我从来没有想过北大是我能够上学的地方，她是我心中一块圣地，觉得永远够不着。但是那一年，第三年考试时我的高考分数超过了北大录取分数线七分，我终于下定决心咬牙切齿填了“北京大学”四个字。我知道一定会有很多人比我分数高，我认为自己是不会被录取的。没想到北大的招生老师非常富有眼光，料到了三十年后我的今天。但是实际上我的英语水平很差，在农村既不会听也不会说，只会背语法和单词。我们班分班的时候，五十个同学分成三个班，因为我的英语考试分数不错，就被分到了A班，但是一个月以后，我就被调到了C班。C班叫做“语音语调及听力障碍班”。

记得我在北大的时候，到大学四年级毕业时，我的成绩依然排在全班最后几名。但是，当时我已经有了一个良好的心态。我知道我在聪明上比不过我的同学，但是我有一种能力，就是持续不断的努力。所以在我们班的毕业典礼上我说了这么一段话，到现在我的同学还能记得，我说：“大家都获得了优异的成绩，我是我们班的落后同学。但是我想让同学们放心，我决不放弃。你们五年干成的事情我干十年，你们十年干成的我干二十年，你们二十年干成的我干四十年”。我对他们说：“如果实在不行，我会保持心情愉快、身体健康，到八十岁以后把你们送走了我再走。”

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凡尔纳的失败与成功

凡尔纳是一位世界闻名的科幻小说作家，但很少有人知道凡尔纳为了发表他的第一部作品，曾经遭受过多么大的挫折!这里记录的，就是凡尔纳的一段令人难忘的经历：

1863年冬天的一个上午，凡尔纳刚吃过早饭，正准备到邮局去，突然听到一阵敲门声，他开门一看，原来是一个邮递员。

邮递员把一包鼓囊囊的邮件递到了凡尔纳的.手里。一看到这样的邮件，凡尔纳就预感到不妙，自从他几个月前把他的第一部科幻小说《乘气球五周记》寄到各出版社后，收到这样的邮件已经是第十四次了。

他怀着忐忑不安的心情拆开一看，上面写道：“凡尔纳先生：书稿经我们审读后，不拟出版，特此奉还。”

每看到这样一封封退稿信，凡尔纳心里都是一陈绞痛。这次是第十五次了，还是未被采用。凡尔纳此时已深知，那些出版社的“老爷”们是如何看不起无名作者。他愤怒地发誓，从此再也不写了。

他拿起手稿向壁炉走去，准备把这些稿子付之一炬。他妻子赶过来，一把抢过书稿紧紧抱在怀里。 此时的凡尔纳余怒未息，说什么也要把稿子烧掉。

他妻子急中生智，以满怀关切的语言安慰丈夫，“亲爱的，不要灰心，再试一次吧，也许这次能交上好运的。”听了这句话以后，凡尔纳夺书稿的手，慢慢放下了。他沉默了好一会儿，然后接受了妻子的劝告，又抱起这一大包书稿到第十六家出版社去碰运气。

这次没有落空，读完书稿后，这家出版社立即决定出版此书，并与凡尔纳签订了的出书合同。 没有他妻子的疏导，没有“再努力一次”的勇气，我们也许根本无法读到凡尔纳笔下那些脍炙人口的科幻故事，人类就会失去一份极其珍贵的精神财富。

宽容比自由更重要

1874年11月30日的夜晚，伦敦的布伦海姆宫灯火辉煌，一群贵族男女在这里翩翩起舞。突然，一位活泼、美丽的贵族夫人连声叫喊肚子疼痛，人们赶快把她扶到就近的一个临时女更衣室。温斯顿·丘吉尔——一个早产儿，就这样非同寻常地来到人间。

丘吉尔是英国显赫的贵族公爵马尔巴罗家族的后代。英国除了王室以外，公爵家庭总共不超过20个，马尔巴罗家族按封爵次序名列其中第十位。丘吉尔的母亲詹妮是美国百万富翁杰罗姆的女儿，1873年与丘吉尔的父亲伦道夫结婚，1895年1月24日伦道夫因病医治无效，溘然去世，终年46岁。这时的詹妮虽已40多岁，但依然美艳惊人，风姿绰约。不久，她便萌生了嫁给一个25岁男人的想法。然而消息一经传出，立刻遭到众多亲友的反对。就在詹妮几乎要放弃了的时候，詹妮25岁的儿子、与母亲要嫁之人同岁的丘吉尔，坚决地握住她的双手：“亲爱的母亲，就算全世界都反对您，我也会勇敢地站在您这边，所以，请您也一定要勇敢。”儿子坚毅、鼓励的目光，让詹妮义无反顾地披上了洁白的婚纱。

但这桩婚姻并没有维持多久。10多年过去了，詹妮的儿子丘吉尔已经凭借卓越的才能跻身政坛。60岁的.詹妮也要再次迎来婚礼。这次的决定同样遭到众人强烈的反对，尤其是儿子的那些反对派们。詹妮犹豫了。这次与上次不同，丘吉尔打小就怀有雄心壮志，并且具备实现远大理想的能力。她不想因为自己贻误儿子的前程。然而，令他意想不到的是，儿子又一次握住了她的手：如果让我在我的仕途与您的幸福之间作选择，我心甘情愿的选择后者。请您不要再有任何顾虑。母亲幸福，我才幸福。詹妮又一次无比快乐地迈入了婚姻的殿堂。婚礼上，儿子依然像上次一样，坚强地站在她的身边，而另一边则是比儿子还要年轻的36岁的新郎。能够两次接受母亲的婚姻，也许很多人都做得到。而面对沉重的压力，丘吉尔两次接受和自己年龄差不多的人作自己的继父，这需要多么豁达的胸怀。

198月15日，伦敦报纸登载了一条引人注目的消息：33岁的内阁贸易大臣温斯顿·丘吉尔先生与23岁的克莱门蒂娜霍齐娅小姐订婚。举行婚礼的这一天热闹非凡，宾朋满堂，欢歌笑语。证婚人是财政大臣劳合乔治，而他选择的男傧相却是他在下院的一个坚决反对者——包括休塞西尔勋爵。当时丘吉尔推行一系列争取工人拥护的社会改革，休塞西尔勋爵在内的贵族集团坚决反对这些改革。这里反映了英国政治生活中的一个很有意思的特点：人们可以在下院和政治集会上相互咒骂，如同仇敌，但在个人生活中却能成为亲朋好友，相敬无间。在政治生活中虽然是公敌，却不妨碍他们在私人生活中称兄道弟。恩格斯《在马克思墓前的讲话》中也这样说过：“马克思是当代最遭嫉恨和最受XX的人。……而我敢大胆地说：他可能有过许多敌人，但未必有一个私敌。”西方近代的这种文化现象是多么的耐人寻味。

宽容比自由更重要!这宽容来源于对每个人权利的尊重：我虽然不赞成你的观点，但我坚决捍卫你发表观点的权利;我虽然不支持你的行动，但我坚决维护你合法行动的自由!

完成未完成的学业

大导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格决定回到加州大学修完当年还没有读完的电影系学分。

1965年，史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格在加大电影系二年级时拍了一部22分钟的短片，参加亚特兰大电影节，好莱坞的投资者看了，马上与他签约，斯皮尔伯格因此辍学，到好莱坞发展。事实证明这一步是对的，如果他当年不把握机会，坚持要完成学业，他或许成不了大师。

但40年过去了，斯皮尔伯格虽然功成名就，他还是很介意年轻时的学业没有完成。夜深人静时，斯皮尔伯格总听到一个声音对他说：今天你是好莱坞权力最大的人，你的名字是年轻人的名气、金钱的保证，但那又怎样呢?你曾经背弃过自己的承诺，无论再有钱、名气再大，你的品格还有个小小的污点，因为你曾经当过逃兵。

斯皮尔伯格回到大学，用假名重新注册插班，用假名考试交卷，只有几个教授知道他的身份，他的.功课与其他学生一起送交校外的学者审阅。课程要求学生交电影实习作业，斯皮尔伯格在《辛德勒的名单》中选取了12分钟的影片，还交了《大白鲨》和《第三类接触》的片段。大学电影系助理教授凯利为他总评分，给他成绩“良”，评语是“该学生对音响、灯光、剪接和剧本管理颇有驾驭力”。

这位《侏罗纪公园》的主人还要副修一门叫野生生物的学科。教授说他精于恐龙知识，上课谦卑有礼，除了有一天在课堂上把一只脚搁在书桌上。他向老师道歉，解释是前一天与儿子一起玩滑板扭伤了腿。教授提醒班上其他学生，不要对这个天王级的同学有什么崇拜的眼光，只把他当普通人。学生做到了，没有向他索取签名，但在毕业典礼的那天，他们告诉父母：我与史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格同一年毕业。

在虚荣的世界，有太多人相信“成功人士”不一定要念完大学，并以盖茨为例，说盖茨也没有读完哈佛。但学业没有完成，是毕生的心理创伤，即使缝合了，也还在心头留下疤痕。终有一天，我们都会为年轻时一件没有交的功课、一项未完的工作，或辜负了的一个人而感到遗憾，醒悟一切名誉和财富都不能补偿。这样的遗憾，像风湿症，通常在中年以后发作。斯皮尔伯格不惜代价，治好了他的风湿症，他是一个有福气的人。

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老师们，同学们：

大家下午好!我今天演讲的题目是《生命是“1”》。

布莱恩让是泰国著名耍蛇人，且他耍的不是一般的蛇，而是令人毛骨悚然的剧毒眼镜蛇。

19xx年，26岁的布莱恩让和一千条眼镜蛇同在一个玻璃柜中“同居”了整整7天而安然无恙，创下当时的吉尼斯纪录，被誉为世界“蛇王”，闻名全球。

20xx年3月19日，泰国气候炎热，空气沉闷。许多人从曼谷开车赶赴布莱恩让的住所，观看他高超的耍蛇技艺。布莱恩让和往常一样，把一条条“驯服有素”的眼镜蛇从竹筒里倒出来和他一起表演。其间，一条眼镜蛇屡次不听“号令”，蜷盘着长长的`身子赖在舒适、清凉的竹筒里，但抵挡不住主人的“威逼利诱”，很不情愿地登台表演。布莱恩让十分娴熟地操控着几十条眼镜蛇，任它们自由灵活地游弋、穿行并缠绕在自己的身体上。突然，就是刚才企图赖在竹筒里偷懒的那条蛇，猛地对布莱恩让发起攻击，在他的胳膊肘上咬了一口，鲜血立刻流了出来。观众们被这突如其来的意外吓坏了，诧异地叫出声来，纷纷提醒并劝说布莱恩让去医院治疗。布莱恩让脸上显出几分尴尬，额上沁出许多汗珠，但他却装做什么事也没发生一样，继续着表演。可是，观众们发现，布莱恩让原本从容、利落的动作逐渐凌乱、迟钝，且大汗淋漓。大家再次劝阻他停止表演，赶紧救治。然而，布莱恩让尽管已头晕目眩、呼吸困难，明显地感到力不从心，但他仍强撑着坚持摇头说：“不行，没事的。我的表演从来没有出现过这样的差错和失误……”接下来，他的情形越来越糟糕，而他却坚持不肯中断表演。大家面面相觑，交头接耳一番后，心照不宣地纷纷快速离去，好使布莱恩让抛却“面子”，抓紧时间救治。

观众刚一离开，布莱恩让就像醉汉一般倒在地上。家人连忙把他送到最近的医院。可是，医生检查后却十分痛心地说：眼镜蛇的毒素