英文勵志演講稿合集【9篇】

　　演講稿可以提高演講人的自信心，有助發(fā)言人更好地展現(xiàn)自己。在發(fā)展不斷提速的社會中，演講稿的使用頻率越來越高，你所見過的演講稿是什么樣的呢？下面是小編為大家整理的英文勵志演講稿，歡迎大家借鑒與參考，希望對大家有所幫助。

英文勵志演講稿1

　　many things in this world find neither an answer nor a proper explanation. for example, why should two become a couple among the billions of people on earth? why don't they love each other even though they live together everyday, and yet one of them falls in love with someone else at the first sight? why do the members of a family quarrel daily but still stay unhappily together? why can't they get married in spite of the fact that they are a perfect match to each other? why should one toil so much for the other? why should the love-infatuated always be deserted by the heartless?.....

　　people remain puzzled in spite of their great effort to understand the endless questions, so they invented the all-embracing word---“predestination”. in order to be more precise, different combinations were derived from it: love predestination, sinful predestination, evil predestination, and kind predestination etc., hence we have the sayings like: “predestination will definitely bring you together despite the great distance while without predestination, you'll never know each other even though you are standing fact to face” “a distant couple is tied up with the thread of predestination” and even the phrases and expressions like “the god of marriage”, “predestination without luck”, “l(fā)uck without predestination”, “coming across each other is a kind of predestination”, “enemies are bound to meet on a narrow road”, “they shall not marry each other unless they are predestined lovers”. if people still can not find answers, they turn to “reincarnation” for help. lin daiyu is always in tears just for repaying for the water jia baoyu had given her when she was a plant in her previous life in a dream of the red mansions .

　　in fact, the so-called “predestination” is often a kind of coincidence or chance encounter, even a kind of accident. if you don't meet this person, you'll surely meet some one else. but people insist on adding some colors of emotions or superstition, thus generating various religious factions, the main theories of which are no more than that of “reincarnation”, “heaven and hell” and “the ever-lasting soul” etc.

　　but does anyone know anything about his previous life or his after life? what could he do even if he knew them? if he can't grasp the present life, what's the benefit of commenting on the visionary after life? giving up today is the same as giving up tomorrow, for they are closely connected. how absurd it is to work like the horse or cattle in the present life in order to be above others in the next life.

　　have you ever seen emperor qinshihuang reincarnate? have you ever heard of emperor wudi of the han dynasty going into another life? where is now monk xuanzang of the tang dynasty (what we know is the big wild goose pagoda)? where is the monkey king (the flower and fruit mountain does exist, though)? and where can we find those great emperors such as yao , shun yu and the influential philosophers like confucius, laozi and zhuangzi?

　　how many heavens do we find? are they also divided into the oriental and the occidental world? is god a chinese or westerner? which is the greatest religion among buddhism, daoism, christianity, catholicity and islamism? all religions advocate doing good deeds and not killing, but why do they keep contending against each other, even fighting and killing among themselves? is the paradise the same one in all religions? there's only one sun in the sky, and there should be only one emperor in a country, but do all religions believe in the same god, or do they have different gods of their own? if all of us expected god's help, wouldn't god be too busy and too tired?

　　does god respect science? if not, why does he allow computers and telecommunications to run rampant? if it is god who created human beings, then doesn't he feel out of control of what the human being are doing now (the nuclear weapons and bio-chemical weapons, etc.)?

　　we human beings have an origin, and is it the same with god? does god get married? is god hereditary, or is it the same ever-lasting one?

　　we have all those questions but who can answer them?.

　　predestination needs us to strive for; friendship needs us to maintain; good will needs us to treasure and future needs us to create. there is no savior, nor goddess of mercy who once saved people in the past but cannot do anything to help the people at the present. the world is developing too fast.

　　people have to work together and associate with each other. talking about predestination, it's just a kind of explanation about what has happened, and i'm afraid nobody can predict it before hand. from ancient times till the 1980' s, once getting married, the couple had to stick to each other for their whole life. can we say it is because of their life-long predestination? it is just because of the marriage system. in the western countries, life-long marriage is rare. can we sa

　　y it is because their predestination makes it so? it is actually the result of human nature. the color of love could be attached to predestination, but not the color of superstition.

　　predestination is a lovely word which we should treasure and respect. in the present world, we should always follow the win-win or multi-win policy, instead of being single-handed. in order to achieve success, we must gain mass support instead of indulging in self-admiration. we might as well call the communication, the cooperation, the common concerns and the common aspirations of human beings “predestination”.

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　　now please allow me to introduce myself to you .my name is wangjia and imajored in traffic engineering .baoji is my hometown it is verybeautiful. and the people are very friendly.

　　as we all knowen thingking is easy acting is difficult and to putone's thoughts into actions is the most difficult thing in the world.

　　so if we want to learn english well ,we must practice reading englisheveryday ,acturally practicing repeatly is the best way to succeed.whenyou speak ,don't care how poorly or how well you speak just care aboutcatching the chance to speak ,enjoy losing face or just forget your facebecause the more you speak the better your english will become,neverafraid ofmaking mistakes because the more mistakes you make the more progress you will make.as a man living in the world ,we must try our best to makeeach day our masterpiece and don't let our parents down ,don't ever letour country down ,most importantly don't let ourself down.

　　yesterday is a memory tommorrow is a dream so live for todayjust do it right now.i believe if you can dream it you can make it ,ifyou do you will win if you don't you won't.believe in youself trustyouself try your best. don't give up ,never give in, never lose hope ,never say impossible .the success is coming ! thank you !

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　　there is a poem written by langston hughes hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,life is a broken-winged bird. that can never fly.hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field,frozen with snow. how beautiful it is. yes, we shouldn’t give up our dreams.we shouldn’t give in to the large pressure on the way to realize our dreams.how shall we dorobert h. goddard gave us the answer, “it is difficult to say which is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality oftomorrow” youth is not a time of life，it is a state of mind; it is not a matter ofrosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees，it is a matter of the will, aquality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. nobody grows old merely by a number of years. we grow old by deserting our ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. worry,fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust. whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. in the center of your heart and my heart there is a wirelessstation: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, you and i will remain young. when the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are upto catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may have young heart at 80.

　　青春不是生命的一瞬，它是一種自然的心境；青春不是如花的臉龐、鮮紅的嘴唇和健康柔潤的雙腿，它是一種意志、想象、精力，更是生命中那生機(jī)勃勃的春天。青春是沖動的勇敢而不是懦弱,青春是挑戰(zhàn)的欲望而不是安逸的生活。即使年過花甲,壯心不已.沒有人癡長百歲,而伴隨著的是我們拋卻幻想,錘煉生活的經(jīng)歷。歲月讓我們的皮膚起了皺紋,但缺乏激情會讓我們的靈魂萎縮。焦慮、恐懼、缺乏自信讓心稽首，更讓心靈的`青春塵封。無論60歲還是16歲，我們每個人都有著天生的好奇心、孩子般刨根追底不厭其煩的渴求欲望、幻想游戲人生的生活方式。在你我心中有著心靈的默契：只要我們的心還能從人們的身上和大自然的懷抱中感受到美麗、希望、快樂、勇氣和力量，那么我們依舊年輕無限。當(dāng)幻想破滅，而你憤世嫉俗，對生活充滿悲觀情緒，那么你已經(jīng)老了。即使在20歲的時候，只要你積極樂觀的追求你心中的幻想，一直到永遠(yuǎn)，那么你在80歲的時候仍有一顆永保青春的心。

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　　I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don t even bother asking. Don t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

　　I hate that word — lucky It cheapens a lot of hard work.

　　I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That s about as exciting as my life gets.

　　[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it s not your problem. It s theirs.

　　Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

　　You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

　　Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

　　I love animals. All animals. I wouldn t hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That s why I m a vegetarian.

　　I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

　　George Martin is an incredible writer.

　　I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

　　Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

　　So I won t say I m lucky. I m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

　　Bad guys are complicated characters. It s always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don t have a heroic code you have to live by.

　　I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera s on.

　　I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

　　My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didnt always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

　　Call me Elf......one more time!

　　I don t socialize. I m kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

　　I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - lucky .

　　I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what s the fun in that?

　　I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn t... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

　　That s one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you re done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

　　Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

　　I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It s kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

　　I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn t very strong, as opposed to film, but there s been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

　　Game of Thrones is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

　　Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

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　　Dear teacher, dear classmates：

　　Good morning !

　　Someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. I don't know who wrote these words, but I've always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. We are all in the position of the farmers. If we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

　　We are young. “How to spend the youth?” It is a meaningful question. To answer it, first I have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It's not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It's the matter of the will. It's the freshness of the deep spring of life.

　　A poet said “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Several days ago, I had a chance to listen to a lecture. I learnt a lot there. I'd like to share it with all of you. Let's show our right palms. We can see three lines that show how our love.career and life is. I have a short line of life. What about yours? I wondered whether we could see our future in this way. Well, let's make a fist. Where is our future? Where is our love, career, and life? Tell me.Yeah, it is in our hands. It is held in ourselves.

　　We all want the future to be better than the past. But the future can go better itself. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. From the past, we've learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. We've learnt that we can't choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. Failure doesn't mean you don't have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way. Failure doesn't mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder.

　　As what I said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. The past has gone. Nothing we do will change it. But the future is in front of us. Believe that what we give to the world, the world will give to us. And from today on, let's be the owners of ourselves, and speak out “We are the world, we are the future.”

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　　five thousand years of glorious civilization, the chinese, the four major inventions in the world bright with china. descendants are all proud of our nation, proud.

　　we are proud, because china has a long history and splendid culture. five thousand years of glorious history of the chinese nation, settling the essence of eastern and western civilizations, revealing the dawn of human science, the history of civilization in the world with the enduring charm. four great inventions change the face of humanity as a whole, "book of songs" to create a realistic world literature precedent, the romantic poetry of qu yuan to bring the extraordinary imagination of mankind, the prose of qin and han, tang, song, yuan, ming and qing fiction, confucius and mencius doctrine as well as "the art of war", etc., all demonstrate the ancestors of the chinese nation rich emotion and wisdom.

　　we are proud that vast land of china. nature millions of years, sculpture, constitute a colorful picture, pentium nurtured

　　generations of descendants of the yellow river, the yangtze river each new year surging surging waves of wisdom, standing proudly on top of everest in the world peak of the chinese nation the symbol of unyielding character, and many countlerivers and lakes, mountains, okawa, cultural landscape, this is not the pride of all chinese people and proud?

　　however, history does not glow bright sun every day, china had been brilliant, has a catastrophe ordeal. but also created the chinese nation, we are proud of the great indomitable character, casting a strong backbone of china. over the past 50 years, numerous

　　miracles again in this wonderful land of birth. rapid economic

　　development, science and technology fruits. bombs and one satellite has heaven, a seat like a rainbow bridge acrothe yangtze river. three gorges project, the qinghai-tibet railway, hong kong and macao's return, china's accession to wto; test new varieties of hybrid rice succeof the world's agricultural science and technology research to fill gaps in the field, all these all reflect the great vitality and cohesion of china, fully demonstrating its great and brilliant

　　achievements, should we not be proud of these achievements, and proud of it? decades of good governance, top to bottom search of several years, our country has stood in the east, self-reliance among the nations in the world!

　　we are the most dynamic young people, like the morning eight or nine o'clock the sun, the hope of the chinese nation. the world is our 21st century is our century! let us work hard seeking knowledge, devote themselves to study culture, to master skills, work together to create our nation a more brilliant tomorrow!

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　　as you slowly open your eyes,look around,notice where the light comes into your room;listen carefully,see if there are new sounds you can recognize;feel with your body and spirit,and see if you can sense the freshness in the air.

　　yes,yes,yes,it’s a new day,it’s a different day,and it’s a bright day!and most importantly,it is a new beginning for your life,a beginning where you are going to make new desicisions,take new actions,make new friends,and take your life to a totally unprecedented level!

　　in your mind’s eye,you can see clearly the things you want to have,the paces you intend to go,the relationships you desire to develop,and the positions you aspire to reach.

　　you can hear your laughters of joy and happiness on the day when everything happens as you dream.

　　you can see the smiles on the people around you when the magic moment strikes.

　　you can feel your face is getting red,your heart is beating fast,and your blood is rushing all over your body,to every single corner of your being!

　　you know all this is real as long as you are confident,passionate and committed!and you are confident,you are confident,passionate and committed!

　　you will no longer fear making new sounds,showing new facial expressions,using your body in new ways,approaching new people,and asking new questions.

　　you will live every single day of your life with absolute passion,and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take.

　　you will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your will never succumb to challenges of hardships.

　　you will never waver in your pursuit of r all,you are the best,and you deserve the best!

　　as you coach and friend,i can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you,but the key to that door is in your must do your part,you must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan,you must never quit,you must never fear.i know you must do it,you can do it,you will do it,and you will succeed!now stand firm and tall,make a fist,get excited,and yell it out:

　　i must do it!i can do it!i will do it!i will succeed!

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　　water, sky, ground, sea, rivers and lakes are. for water conservation, the students always feel as section

　　save something else less important. some students on the tap, foot, scouring, some students a drink of water, but the mouth facing the faucet to drink tap water, sound of rushing water, and does not feel bad. water line really worth it? water conservation is really unimportant? not the world's water 93% is salt water, not drink. accounted for only 7% of fresh water, and drink water only accounts for eight per cent of zero. billion people around the world, we depend on it accounted for only 0.8% drinking fre

　　sh water, watching, water and more valuable ah! although there are three liters of water per person per day will be able to maintain life, but in fact of urban residents per person per day cooking, washing, washing vegetables ... ... everything can not do without water, water up to several hundred liters. in addition, the farming and industrial production can not do without water. people can live several days without eating a few days without water can not. can not afford to humanity is to survive away from

　　water, showing how important it is to save water.

　　water conservation "is not limited to water, but not let water. in fact, people save water is a reasonable use of water, efficient use of water. save water does not affect our quality of life. everyone has the value of resources wasted to correct others水obligations. the idea that "as long as i pay the water, you can whim, waste water is my own business, others out of mind" point of view is wrong, our country, "water law" that water resources belong to the state , that is, the whole people. provide for countries around the world, water is public property. therefore, everyone should have public water awareness. power resources are very precious, unite the hard work of many people. everyone should love the water, saving water against pollution of water and waste water. "calendar view forerunners state and family, as the thrift failure by the extravagance. "qinjianchijia, diligence and universities, this is a morality, is a virtue.. students, we are a small host country, from small water conservation should deve

　　lop good thinking habits. whether in school or in outside the school, should pay attention to water conservation. we must take practical action to be a good boy to save water

　　chairman, distinguished members of the teachers, dear colleagues:

　　hello, everyone.

　　today i share with you the topic is: corporate social responsibility.

　　corporate social responsibility ( c

　　orporatesocialresponsibility, csr) refers to the enterprises to create profits for shareholders, bear legal responsibility at the same time, also undertake to employees, customers, community and environmental responsibility. corporate social responsibility requires the enterprises to go beyond the profit as the only goal of the traditional philosophy, emphasis on the production process of the value of human attention, emphasis on consumer, environmental, contribution to society.

　　remember that we have just moved into the building, regardless of the weekend, or at 10: 00 to the company, you will find our this building always lights, as bright as day. i think at that time, the premier for his annual unit gdp energy consumption reduced by 4% goals; and our late night nobody when lighted, why can't we do some contribution for the premier goal?

　　i think back and forth to oneself, toss and turn restlessly, then president gao ruibin wrote an email, attached the photo, suggested, we should find better energy-saving measures to reduce energy consumption for countries to make our contribution. high total in his busy schedule to see my messages, promptly forwarded to an associated organization and colleagues.

　　we think, in which after what has changed?

　　so long, i see every night 9: 00, 10: 00, in our building will be the property of staff to inspect each floor, power off.

　　to this year july 10th, our office at 7 : 30 after lighting will be automatically closed. see the satisfactory change, i gave a high total wrote an email, attached 2 photos, one is at 11 : 00 then we motorola mansion; it shows our lighting power supply have been almost completely closed, with the last picture really is my not. another photo of our neighbors, a canadian company's mansion; displayed above their lighting like we were building a year ago that way, as clear as daylight ... ...

　　high total gave me the reply that the name is corporatesocialresponsibility csr, corporate social respons

　　ibility, not just the company, as well as each employee 's responsibility. only we work together, we will continue to uphold the company of equality, open, inclusive, innovative spirit, innovation in science and technology continue to forge ahead on the road; our society will be more harmonious.

　　so what i am going to do, is to nortel ceo write, tell them to the attention of section pass reduction. in the hope that this time next year, in this place, to report my progress.

　　thank you!

　　when i was young,i always dreamed that i lived in a beautiful country. there were many flowers and trees around our city.we counld hear the birds singing and see the children dancing. the streets were clear and the the air was very fresh! how nice it was!but that only was a dream of mine!how i wish that it would be come true! so i think we should do something to protect our environment. everyone should make a contribution to protect the environment.

　　taking care of our environment is very important.wherever you live,you can do something around your neighbourhood.

　　have you ever thrown any litter onto the ground?have you ever drawn pictures on public walls?have you ever spat in a public place?have you ever cut down trees?if your answers are "no",it means that you have already helped protect our environment.

　　it is our duty to keep our envionment clean and tidy. you might ask yourself,"have i ever picked up some rubbish and thrown it into a dustbin?have i ever collected waste paper or bottles for recycling?have i ever planted any trees or flowers in or near my neighbourhood?"if your answers are"yes",it means that you have already done something useful to improve the environment.

　　now i want to say :let`s do our best to make our world more beautiful!

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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.名人勵志演講稿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 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.

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