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1、英文名人演讲励志短文在美国，你的命运由你自己书写，你的未来由你自己掌握。如下小编就为大家收集了英文名人演讲励志短文，欢迎阅读！ 英文名人演讲励志短文 At the dawn of the 21st century a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and, yes, to form a more perfect union. 在二

2、十一世纪的曙光来临之际，一个自由的民族现在必须做出选择，去打造信息时代和全球一体化的力量，去释放全民无尽的潜能，并且，去成就一个更完美的联邦国家。 When last we gathered, our march to this new future seemed less certain than it does today. We vowed then to set a clear course to renew our nation. 上次我们在此相聚时，我们向这个新未来的进军似乎没有今天这么明确，我们那时曾宣誓确立新的道路，复兴我们的国家。 In these four years, w

3、e have been touched by tragedy, exhilarated by challenge, strengthened by achievement. America stands alone as the world s in dispensable nation. Once again, our economy is the strongest on Earth. Once again, we are building stronger families, thriving communities, better educational opportunities,

4、a cleaner environment. Problems that once seemed destined to deepen now bend to our efforts: our streets are safer and record numbers of our fellow citizens have moved from welfare to work. 在这四年中，悲剧使我们动容，挑战使我们兴奋，成就使我们强大。美国作为世界不可缺少的国家巍然挺立。再一次，我们的经济是世界上最强大的；再一次，我们建设着更牢固的家庭，繁荣的社区，更好的教育机会，更清洁的环境。曾经似乎注定要

5、恶化的问题现在也屈服于我们的努力：我们的街道更安全，参加工作不再领取社会福利的公民人数比任何时候都多。 And once again, we have resolved for our time a great debate over the role of government. Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. 再一次，我们解决了当前关于政府角色问题的巨大争论。今天我们可以宣告：政府不是问题的产生者，政府也不是问题的解决者。 附:英文名人励志演讲

6、Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we ve got students tuning in from all

7、across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host. Give yourselves a big round of applause. (Applause.) I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for thos

8、e of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it s your first day in a new school, so it s understandable if you re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now - (applause) - with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade

9、 you re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning. I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn t have the money to send me where all

10、 the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning. Now, as you might im

11、agine, I wasn t too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she d say, This is no picnic for me either, buster. (Laughter.) So I know that some of you are s

12、till adjusting to being back at school. But I m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what s expected of all of you in this new school year. Now, I ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I ve talk

13、ed about responsibility a lot. I ve talked about teachers responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn. I ve talked about your parents responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the

14、Xbox. I ve talked a lot about your government s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren t working, where students aren t getting the opportunities that they deserve. But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedica

15、ted teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world - and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents

16、 and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you re good at. Every

17、 single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That s the opportunity an education can provide. Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you

18、write that English paper - that English class paper that s assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you c

19、ould be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice - but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team. And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer

20、? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it. And this isn t just i

21、mportant for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future. Y

22、ou ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You ll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty a

23、nd homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy. We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your sk

24、ills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you don t do that - if you quit on school - you re not just quitting on yourself, you re quitting on your country. Now, I know it s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in

25、your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. I get it. I know what it s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn t always able to give us the things that o

26、ther kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn t fit in. So I wasn t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my li

27、fe could have easily taken a turn for the worse. But I was - I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and th

28、ey didn t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country. Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost thei

29、r job and there s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren t right. But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money

30、you have, what you ve got going on at home - none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn t h

31、ave to determine where you ll end up. No one s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future. That s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America. Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn t speak

32、 English when she first started school. Neither of her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University - is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez. I m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from

33、 Los Altos, California, who s fought brain cancer since he was three. He s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer - hundreds of extra hours - to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He s headed to college this fall. A

34、nd then there s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she s on track to gradua

35、te high school with honors and go on to college. And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren t any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they ve got it a lot worse off than many of you. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility

36、for their lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same. That s why today I m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education - and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework,

37、paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you

38、 believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when

39、you don t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter. But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it. I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work - that your ti

40、cket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you re not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being successful is hard. You won t love every subject that you study. You won t click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment wi

41、ll seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That s okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who ve had the most failures. J.K. Rowling s - who wrote Harry Potter - her first Harry Pot

42、ter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that s why I succeed. T

43、hese people succeeded because they understood that you can t let your failures define you - you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn t mean you re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harde

44、r to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn t mean you re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying. No one s born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don t hit every note

45、 the first time you sing a song. You ve got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper be

46、fore it s good enough to hand in. Don t be afraid to ask questions. Don t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn t a sign of weakness, it s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don t know something, and that then all

47、ows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust - a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor - and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals. And even when you re struggling, even when you re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you

48、, don t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. The story of America isn t about people who quit when things got tough. It s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. It s

49、the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other. So today, I want to ask all of you, what s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What