有关青春的英语演讲稿（通用21篇）
To see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean, to walkupon the green earth, and to be lord of a thousand creatures, to look down giddyprecipices or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread out underone's finger in a map, to bring the stars near, to view the smallest insects ina microscope, to read history, and witness the revolutions of empires and thesuccession of generations, to hear of the glory of Simon and Tire, of Babylonand Susan, as of a faded pageant, and to say all these were, and are nownothing, to think that we exist in such a point of time ,and in such a corner ofspace, to be at once spectators and a part of the moving scene, to watch thereturn of the seasons, of spring and autumn, to hear---
The stock dove plain amid the forest deep,
That drowsy rustles to the sighing gale.
---to traverse desert wilderness, to listen to the dungeon's gloom, or sitin crowded theatres and see life itself mocked, to feel heat and cold, pleasureand pain, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, to study the works of art andrefine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream ofimmortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as SirIsaac Newton; to be and to do all this, and then in a moment to be nothing, tohave it all snatched from one like a juggler's ball or a phantasmagoria……
我们看到金色的太阳，蔚蓝的天空，广阔的海洋;我们漫步在绿油油的大地之上，做万物的主人;我们俯视令人目炫心悸的悬崖峭壁，远眺鲜花盛开的山谷;我们把地图摊开，任意指点全球;我们把星辰移到眼前观看，还在显微镜下观察极其微小的生物;我们学历史，亲自目睹帝国的兴亡、时代的交替;我们听人谈论西顿、推罗、巴比伦和苏撒的勋业，如同听一番往昔的盛会，听了之后，我们说：这些事确实发生过，但现在却是过眼云烟了;我们思考着自己生活的时代、生活的地区;我们在人生的活动舞台上既当观众、又当演员;我们观察四季更迭、春秋代序;我们听见了——
野鸽在浓密的树林中哀诉，
树林随微风的叹息而低语 ;
我们横绝大漠;我们倾听子夜的歌声;我们光顾灯火辉煌的厅堂，走下阴森森的地牢，或者坐在万头攒动的剧院里观看生活本身受到的摹拟;我们亲身感受炎热和寒冷，快乐和痛苦，正义和邪恶，真理和谬误;我们钻研艺术作品，把自己的美感提高到极其敏锐的程度 ;我们崇拜荣誉，梦想不朽 ;我们阅读莎士比亚，或者把自己和牛顿爵士视为同一族类;——正当我们面临这一切、从事这一切的时候，自己却在一刹那之间化为虚无，眼前的一切，象是魔术师手中的圆球，象是一场幻影，一下子全都消失得无影无踪.....
My Dream
I dream of being a doctor.
My mother is a doctor. She always has to work extra hours and comes home late and tired. She has to go to the hospital immediately any time she is needed, no matter how late it is at night. When I was very little and still in primary school, I once asked her why she chose such a boring and hard job. She answered with a smile, “Yes I am sometimes very tired but seeing my patients getting better and better makes me happy from the bottom of my heart.”
As I grow up, I gradually come to understand her words and realize doctors are noble. I made up my mind to be a doctor when I was in junior school and this has never changed since then.
I really hope to see a world where there is no cancer, no Aids, no fatal disease, no one suffering from illness. But this is only a fantasy. What about the reality? There are still many many people who are faced with disastrous disease and suffering from constant pain. There are still many many people living in miserable condition and live miserably. There are still many many people dying of cancer and leaving the beautiful world reluctantly. All those things make me feel sad because I think everyone has the right to live . I want to help the sick and reduce their pain as much as I can. I want to bring a healthy body to the patients and save their lives as many as I can. I want to see people cured ,living happily with their families and friends after my treatment. So I want to be a doctor ,an angel in white.
When I become a doctor, I will cherish each life regardless of the races, sexes, ages, positions and occupations. I will do every bit to cure the incurable.
I already have a dream in my heart,so I have to make every effort to realize it.As a high school student now,I will seize every chance to study hard,arm myself with knowledge, prepare myself for the future and strive for my dreams. I will be determined, face the reality bravely and not surrender to any problems I meet.
Is’s like Gothe says,“The important thing in life is to have a great aim and be determined to attain it.”Being a doctor is my dream. I think it is simple but meanful.
The government and people of China have always admired the purposes and principles of the Olympic spirit and supported the efforts made by the Olympics in promoting world peace. The Chinese government and people are doing our utmost in preparation for the 20xx Olympics in Beijing. It is our hope to make it a grand gathering that will carry forward the Olympic spirit, promote world peace and enhance the friendship among people of the world, so that the Olympic spirit will flourish once again, this time in China, an oriental country with an ancient civilization.
1、Maintain a good attitude of tolerance towards people , the students are friendly to each other, to create a harmonious interpersonal relationships.
2、 We should promote a vibrant style of the team, a real study , the unity displayed a style of class and diligence to make personal style in a good environment. The students forge ahead and to the ideal of hard work. Learning positive, thereby creating a harmonious atmosphere for education.
With the development of society, harmony becomes the theme of this time. Everyone is doing his best to make the surroundings harmonious. As a member of our campus, we should take action in building the harmonious campus.
Here are some suggestions. First, treat people sincerely. We should be ready to help each other when someone is in trouble. Second, behave yourself. Keep our environment clean and take good care of every tree and every flower. Third, try to be polite. When we meet someone we know, a “hello” is good enough. Then, we can gain their respects for us.
Of course, there are still a lot of things we can do to build the harmonious campus. Anyway, doing something good to our campus is our duty. Let’s do it from now on.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality 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 wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you 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 up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
翻译：青春不是年华，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
Dream flying
Our ordinary life is a dream, from the very moment of landing, we are a dream to come! Similarly, we left this world at the time, it will also be left with their own dreams. Call in the dream, we gradually grew up thinking of gradually mature, and have learned more and more, understand more and more. Our dream is also more and more content, more and more rich. One can not forget that book title mountain crossing the sea during the day and night; not forget that the coexistence of a bitter years of joy; not forget that a bit more earnest remainding respectable mentor taught ... ... 。
The face of the past, we open their minds and hearts of the door, bathed in sunlight to accept and listen to exhort the time, we dream of flying. Is to achieve the dream of the cornerstones of long-term vision; the dream is the beginning of the power savings; dream world is a necessary condition for rational; dream Qijia country is the premise of the world is flat. To this end, the respect of ethics, education can be clearly responsible for, love. We will be ready at all times ... ... Singing rooster dawn broke through the silence, awakened the dream of youth, the old lamp that lit the lamp immortal, with the aid of a weak good care of the light heavy luggage, embark on a new journey began. Eastern rising sun, leaving a string attached to their native land is the footprints of the feelings and give up. Goodbye dear land, we have our dreams, we all need to face new. The rudder has been the fate into their own hands, taking their own route. Believe in yourself and you work hard, must be clear after dark. To do the masters of time, for every seconds, when the ship set sail hard, you are ready? Show your style and create brilliant tomorrow. said that the sky did not leave traces of the birds, but I have been over. Is an eagle, it is necessary to fly across the sky, is a tree, it is necessary to cast a time, the courage to go flying, the courage to go into, you dream of flying, I believe you will be more brilliant tomorrow, tomorrow you will be more exciting. Cherish the present, should grasp the opportunity. Friends, the dream of flying now, let us gather in the glory of that day.
Dear classmates:
High three students, our footprint is binding on the cover of the season, the cover page of life, we will go to journey in June next year, run towards the dreams of June.
Many people say that the high three students like jingwei filling the stream, his mouth as if never plays with ABC and XYZ, thick lens grew up, grew thin hair down... Three means that enrich the sunrise, sunset.
So, three high school year is doomed to be heavy, heavy learning, heavy, heavy expectations, with lots of attention... Everything is in order to heavy harvest. Harvest, insist on, in the struggle! Nietzsche said: "a tree should grow taller, accept more light, then its root must be deeper into the darkness." And the third year is tough and lonely to grow like a tree.
We all know that: "the youth is beautiful". It not only beautiful in the beautiful appearance, even more beautiful in uplifting the spirit of the beauty in involve forward determination. We are ordinary, because we and other cold window study hard scholar as well as in the dream; We are special, because we need to do is a life the most critical.
Content is always happy, not happy people regularly, few people can know need how much effort to realize the dream of heart, we can only move forward, forward, forward again. So we're going to have such a determination and drive: "stick to it, never give up!" Don't pick the fruit of autumn in the summer. Pick, food is not sweet, abandon a pity, or wait until the harvest season to taste the joy of harvest!
亲爱的同学们：
高三学子，我们的足迹已装帧在季节的封面，生命的扉页，我们将踏上奔赴明年六月的征程，朝着六月的梦想努力奔跑。
许多人都说高三学子像精卫一样填着题海，嘴里好像永远都念叨着ABC和XYZ，眼镜片一天天厚起来，头发一天天薄下去……高三意味着充实日出而作，日落不息。
所以，高三学年注定是沉甸甸的：沉甸甸的学习，沉甸甸的教诲，沉甸甸的期望，沉甸甸的关注……一切皆为了沉甸甸的收获。收获，在坚持中，在奋斗中!尼采说过：“一棵树，要长得更高，接受更多的光明，那么它的根就必须更深入黑暗。”而高三就该像一棵树一样坚韧而寂寞地成长。
我们都知道：“青春是美丽的”。它不仅仅美在绚丽的外表，更美在昂扬向上的精神，美在奋然前行的决心。我们普通，因为我们和其他寒窗苦读的书生一样都在追梦;我们特殊，因为我们要做的是一份人生最为关键的答卷。
知足者常乐，不知足者常进，很少有人能知道需付出多少努力才能实现心中的梦想，我们只能不断前进、前进，再前进。因此我们就要有这样的决心和干劲：“坚持到底，永不放弃!”夏天不摘秋天的果。摘下来，食之不甜，弃之可惜，还是等到收获的季节里再去品尝丰收的喜悦吧!
Saying goodbye to childhood,we step into another important time in the pace of young,facing new situations,dealing with different problems..... everyone has his ownunderstanding of young,it is a period of time of beauty and wonders,only after you have experienced the sour ,sweet ,bitter and salty can you really become a person of significance.thre time of young is limitted,it may pass by without your attention,and when you discover what has happened ,it is always too late.grasping the young well means a better time is waiting for you in the near future,or the situation may be opposite . having a view on these great men in the history of hunmanbeing,they all made full use of their youth time ,to do things that are useful to society,to the whole mankind,and as a cosquence ,they are remembered by later generations,admired by everyone.so do something in the time of young,although you may not get achievements as these greatmen did ,though not for the whole word,just for youeself,for those around! the young is just like blooming flowers,they are so beautiful when blooming,they make people feel happy,but with time passing by,after they withers ,moet people think they are ugly.and so it is the same with young,we are enthusiastic when we are young,then we may lose our passion when getting older and older.so we must treasure it ,don't let the limitted time pass by ,leaving nothing of significance.
the teacher the classmates:
everybody is good!
the bird because chose the blue sky, fly to indulge in; flowing streamsbecause choose the sea, to indulge in; the pine because chose dangerouscompleted, just shows the tenacity of life; flowers because chose bursting, justshow the beauty of life. and i chose to fly because it is over, just have everdream of.
journey in the past, whether you have that laughter, owns a sunshine, ithas become the eternal memory, coupled with a lock will it closed up! in frontof us, new teachers, new classmates, new journey, new dreams, new life is beingspeared out, in the face of all this, what should we do. because of the crueltyof reality, we will incarnate as a knight, erase the chest trauma, wipe away thepast glory, take our once, ready to go, the aim of the new semester is thebeginning of our new journey!
dream is our map to success, only to pay action, a solid pace, we can letus to reach the other shore of success. determine our goal, will be for the sakeof his hard work. when aim high! we have to make long don't always aspireto.
life is a pursuit of the ideal, the ideal is the light of life, lost therole of the light, will lose the courage of life. therefore, only adhere to thelofty ideals in life, not in the ocean of life lost. tolstoy to the ideal oflife is divided into a lifetime of ideal, a phase of the ideal, the ideal of oneyear, one month's ideal, even one day, one hour, one minute of ideal.
the classmates, let us build our faith, flying dream, you will be able tobe reached with it a beautiful place. set up the belief, flying dream, you willhave a more brilliant tomorrow. let the dream fly, let faith flowering.
We all come to the world, but why do some of us make great achievements known forever and why are they remembered forever even though they leave the world? And why do some leave the world without anything valuable to his generation and the people? Every one of us will hope to have a significant and valuable life. But what kind of life is both significant and valuable? Answers to the questions are …… "If you cherish your value of your own life, you will create something valuable for the world." Johann Goth said. "The life value should be judged from his contribution rather than his profession." Einstein said. Lei Feng, a communist soldier, said, "one lives to make others a more beautiful life."
As we all know, Marx is an outstanding and great man. He founded his brilliant and scientific theory of communism. The theory guides the ways for the human being's liberation. Marx said, "If we can elect one suitable profession, we won't be demoralized with its pressure, because we make sacrifice for human beings. Only by this way will we not be addicted to the joy of narrow-minded and individualism. Our happiness belongs to thousands upon thousands of people. I see, although it may be unknown, our cause will never be forgot forever. Even when we depart to God, the kind people will tear down upon our ashes." When he said these words, he was only 17 years old. He meant his word with his deeds in his late lifetime period. After his death, on his 100-birthday anniversary, the proletarian and the revolutionary people of the whole world still cherish the memory of Marx and mourn him respectively.
It is his distinguishingable contribution to the mankind that his life is that significant. It is his great devotion to the human being that his life value is beyond measure. We also know that Lu Xun is a man of great. Without his nobility "Fierce-browed, I wooly defy a thousand point fingers, head bowed like a willing ox I serve the children", and without his spirit of his loyalty and devotion to the last for the bright future of the Chinese people, his life would not have been so significant and so great. Actually, didn't those regarded as essence of human who live forever in the hearts of people make great contributions to the cause of the people? Wouldn't the people remember those whose great achievements for human are recorded in history? We know for certain that not every of us will be a second Marx or Lu Xun. However, a person of noble aspirations will do solid work. Struggle
continuously and effortless. He will try to make his greatest contribution in his shortest time. He will try what he can to bring benefit to the people in his lifetime. We'd say it is impossible for one to live alone if he isolates society and people. If he hopes to make a benefit life, he will bring benefit and make contribution to people. As a socialist youth, he will devote his life to the cause of communism in order to make a benefit life. Moreover, we say that a value of life will be only in direct proportion to achievement and contribution he makes to our society. In our real life, we can see many revolutionary martyrs die young for the people. Don't you think they cherish the life? Yes. They do. They are sentimentally attached to life; they are full of hope and desire. But they confront the death bravely and resolutely in order to make many more people live. Their brilliant status will be living in the hearts of people. They die glorious and great.
The life of those who die busy about his lifetime without any achievements can not be compared with their life. In our real life, we have many cases like those. Life is endless and tackling key problems will be continuous. Let's take these as examples. Mr. Jing Zhuying worked for the Chinese science causes to the last of his life. Mr. Zhang Hua sacrificed his own young life for the sake of others, which set a good example of the communist. Mr. An Ke died for fulfillment for the duty as a citizen. Ms Zhang Haiti, compared to be Paul of our time, worked very hard and faced frustrations of her life, though she was disabled. She still continues to live on bravely.
All these are the strong of their life. Their value of life is precious. My fellow students, don't you say what a beautiful life they have? Beethoven once said; "I must learn to control my life which will never make me give myself up. Oh, If only I can live more than thousands times!" Paul Cocking also had a golden saying, "Life is but one." I think every youth of us keep this in our minds. let's turn it into reality with our deeds.
Let's not be a man full of promises but without any deeds, like Lusting, one of the characters by Dougeshefol. My fellow students, let's not wander. Let's not hesitate. Only lament and vexation does not mean consideration and exploration. Only lament and vexation does not mean advancing and does not mean mature at all. Let's not kill our lifetime by playing cards. Let's not waste our youth by drinking. Let's not destroy our will without any achievements. Let's make great contribution to human. And only by these can we create benefit life. Every one will have to die and every body will be rotten. But every one may make achievements and contributions. We hate being rotten. Let's brighten up! Up! And up!
If I had my life to live over……I would have talked less and listened more.I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was strained andthe sofa faded. I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather rambleabout his youth. I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on asummer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. I would have burnedthe pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would havesat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. I wouldhave cried and laughed less while watching television - and more while watchinglife. I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earthwould go into a holding patter if I were not there for the day. I would neverhave bought anything just because it was practical，would not show soil or wasguaranteed to last a life time. There would have been more“I love you”……more“I‘msorry”……but mostly，given another shots at life，I would seize every minute……lookat it and really see it……live it……and never give it back.
假如生活从头再来假如我能重新生活,我会说得更少，听得更多。我会邀请朋友来吃饭，即使地毯变脏,沙发褪色。我会花时间听我的祖父漫谈他的年轻时光。我再也不会坚持在某个夏天的某一天车窗一定要打开，而我的头发刚刚被喷胶并被做好。我会点燃雕得像朵玫瑰一样的粉红的蜡烛，在它被在存储中融化之前。我会与我的孩子一起坐在草坪上，不用担心草地上的污渍。我会在看电视时哭得更少,笑得更少，而更多的是观察生活。当我生病时,我会上床睡觉，而不是假装如果我不在一天,地球就会停止不动。我再也不会购买任何据说是实用的,牢固的,保证可用一生的东西。我会说更多的“我爱你.”……更多的“对不起.”……可是，我被生活再次击倒，我会抓住每一分钟……看看它,实实在在地看它……好好生活……决不让它重头再来。
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .
Youth means a temperamental 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 wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . Worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .
Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders, 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’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are 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 up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.
Thank you!
翻译：青春不是生命的时候，它是一种精神状态;它不是红润的脸颊、红润的嘴唇和柔软的膝盖，它是一种情绪的物质：它是新鲜的;它是生命深处的新鲜。
青春意味着勇气驱走怯懦气贯长虹，冒险战胜安逸。这往往存在于一个60岁以上的男子，比一个20岁的男孩。没有人会变老，只是靠一些年。不思进取。
岁月在皮肤上起皱纹，但放弃热情则会使灵魂起皱。忧虑，恐惧，自我不信任扭曲了心灵，把精神变成了尘土。
不管60 16，但在每个人的心，奇迹之诱惑，孩童的孩童般的渴望和对生活的乐趣。在你的心和我的心有一个无线电台：只要它接收到美好，希望，欢乐，勇气和力量的信息，从男人和从无限的，只要你年轻。
当天线倒塌时，你的心灵蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰凌，那么你已经老了，甚至在20，但只要你竖起天线，捕捉乐观的信号，你就有希望在80岁死去。
谢谢你!
Is being young better than being old? Depending on what it means to be young, and what it means to be old, the answer will vary. But assuming we are talking in general, my answer is yes. When a person gets older, he loses his motivation to be active in society, explore more, and experience things he has not experienced before. This is why being young is better than being old. Young people are motivated to be successful in their lives, faced with less complicated problems, and have more opportunities to become who they want to be than when they are older.
Dream flying
Our ordinary life is a dream, from the very moment of landing, we are a dream to come! Similarly, we left this world at the time, it will also be left with their own dreams. Call in the dream, we gradually grew up thinking of gradually mature, and have learned more and more, understand more and more. Our dream is also more and more content, more and more rich. One can not forget that book title mountain crossing the sea during the day and night; not forget that the coexistence of a bitter years of joy; not forget that a bit more earnest remainding respectable mentor taught ... ... 。
The face of the past, we open their minds and hearts of the door, bathed in sunlight to accept and listen to exhort the time, we dream of flying. Is to achieve the dream of the cornerstones of long-term vision; the dream is the beginning of the power savings; dream world is a necessary condition for rational; dream Qijia country is the premise of the world is flat. To this end, the respect of ethics, education can be clearly responsible for, love. We will be ready at all times ... ... Singing rooster dawn broke through the silence, awakened the dream of youth, the old lamp that lit the lamp immortal, with the aid of a weak good care of the light heavy luggage, embark on a new journey began. Eastern rising sun, leaving a string attached to their native land is the footprints of the feelings and give up. Goodbye dear land, we have our dreams, we all need to face new. The rudder has been the fate into their own hands, taking their own route. Believe in yourself and you work hard, must be clear after dark. To do the masters of time, for every seconds, when the ship set sail hard, you are ready? Show your style and create brilliant tomorrow. said that the sky did not leave traces of the birds, but I have been over. Is an eagle, it is necessary to fly across the sky, is a tree, it is necessary to cast a time, the courage to go flying, the courage to go into, you dream of flying, I believe you will be more brilliant tomorrow, tomorrow you will be more exciting. Cherish the present, should grasp the opportunity. Friends, the dream of flying now, let us gather in the glory of that day.
The lives of most men are determined by their enviroment.They accept thecircumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even withgood will.They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and theydespise the sprightly flitter that dashes in and out of the traffic and speedsso jauntily across the open country .I respct them; they are good citizens,goodhusbands,and good fathers ,and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I donot find them exciting. I am fasinated by the men, few enough in all conscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it in to their own liking.It may be that we have no such thing as free will, but at all events, we havethe illusion of it. At a cross-road it does seem to us that we might go eitherto the right or to the left and ,the choice once made, it is difficult to seethat the whole course of the world's history obliged us to take the turning wedid.
大多数人的生活被他们身处的环境所决定。他们不仅接受既定的命运，而且顺从命运的安排。他们就像街上的电车一样，在他们既定的轨道上行驶，而对于那些不时出没于车水马龙间和欢快地奔驰在旷野上的廉价小汽车却不屑一顾。我尊重他们，他们是好公民、好丈夫和好父亲。当然，总得有些人来支付税收，但是，他们并没有令人激动的地方。另外有一些人，他把生活掌握在自己的手里，可以按照自己的喜好去创造生活，尽管这样的人少之又少，但我却被他们深深的吸引着。可能世界上并没有诸如自由意志这样的事情，但是无论怎样，我们总有关于自由意志的的幻想。当我们处在一个十字路口时，我们似乎可以决定向左走还是向右走，可是一旦做出选择，我们却很难意识到，实际上是世界历史的全部进程强迫我们做出了那样的选择。
A Chief Executive officer is not necessarily someone who has had a lot offormal training.So, I doubt moreschooling would help you climb up that ladder ofsuccess.
Maybe you should try and change your work habits or character. You cannotjust sit around in an organization waiting for people to promote you. You haveto let people know you are ambitious and waiting for biggerand more rewardingchallenges. You should tell your supervisor or boss that you want to be promotedand rise up that management ladder. A good manager will accept, even respect thefact that you wish for career development. If this is not the case, you shouldfind a new job or new company that will allow you to grow.
You must start out small. Hoping that one day you will suddenly becomedirector of a company is doubtful. Getting ready for a slow ascent is morelikely. Accept it, and commit yourself, realizing that it may be alongclimb.
You will need some skills to propel you up that ladder of success.You mustbe competent, that is you need to develop skills in many areas, such asmarketing, human resources, public relations and finances.
You must also be a good people person, always cultivating relationshipswith the people around you.Having “guanxi” is a necessary characteristic of anysuccessful CEO.
公司的首席执行官未必都是经过许多正规培训的人。所以，我认为接受更多的学校教育未必就能促使你在成功的阶梯上步步高升。
也许，你应该试着改变工作习惯或性格。不能仅仅在一个单位里坐等别人来提升你。必须让人们知道你胸怀大志，正在等待更大的、回报更多的挑战。应该告诉你的上司或老板：你想得到提拔，登上管理者的阶层。一位好经理将会理解，甚重你发展亊业的愿望。假如情况不是这样的话，你就应该另谋髙就，以使自己得到发展。
必须从小处开始做起。幻想着有一天突然当上某公司的领导是不太现实的。作好准备慢慢地升迁，可能性更大。接受现实，全力以赴，要意识到这可能是一种漫长的攀登。
你需要掌握一些促使自己往上爬升的技能。你必须具备胜任工作的各种能力。换句话说，你必须具备诸如市场营销、人力资源、公关和财务等方面的技能。
你也必须要有良好的人缘，营造与周围的人黻洽的关系，好的"关系"是任何一位成功的首席执行官必备的要素。
Saying goodbye to childhood,we step into another important time in the pace of young,facing new situations,dealing with different problems..... everyone has his ownunderstanding of young,it is a period of time of beauty and wonders,only after you have experienced the sour ,sweet ,bitter and salty can you really become a person of significance.thre time of young is limitted,it may pass by without your attention,and when you discover what has happened ,it is always too late.grasping the young well means a better time is waiting for you in the near future,or the situation may be opposite . having a view on these great men in the history of hunmanbeing,they all made full use of their youth time ,to do things that are useful to society,to the whole mankind,and as a cosquence ,they are remembered by later generations,admired by everyone.so do something in the time of young,although you may not get achievements as these greatmen did ,though not for the whole word,just for youeself,for those around! the young is just like blooming flowers,they are so beautiful when blooming,they make people feel happy,but with time passing by,after they withers ,moet people think they are ugly.and so it is the same with young,we are enthusiastic when we are young,then we may lose our passion when getting older and older.so we must treasure it ,don't let the limitted time pass by ,leaving nothing of significance.
Let's take steps to banish some of the most common negative thoughts manyof us repeat to ourselves. Being in a negative space is harmful to our overallwell-being, because what you dwell on can easily become self fulfilling if youdon't change your mindset.
1.I'm not good enough.
This type of negative thought that can apply to many categories. Maybe youdon't think you're a good enough mother or good at a sport. Even if you findyourself lacking in something, there's no need to keep repeating it to yourself.The human brain is an incredible thing. Be inspired by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor,Harvard-trained neuroscientist who suffered a stroke that left her unable towalk, read, write, talk, or remember her previous life. Dr. Taylor took eightyears to recover and has since then written a best-selling book about herexperience and appeared on Oprah. Keep on working toward something, and watchthe leaps and bounds you'll make.
让我们一起行动起来，消灭那些我们经常告诉自己的消极想法吧!如果你不改变想法，而是一味地沉浸在消极的念头中，那么，我们的整个身心就会受到影响，因为“噩梦”也会成真。
我不够好。
这种消极想法有很多类型。比如你认为自己不是个称职的妈妈或不擅长运动。即使你真的发现了自己的弱点，也没必要对自己不断复述。人脑是神奇的。吉尔泰勒就是个激励的好典型，她是哈佛大学的神经系统学专家，中风后她就失去了行走、阅读、书写、交谈的能力了，甚至还失忆了。她花了八年的时间复原，用自己的经历写了畅销书，还上了奥普拉的节目。坚持做一件事，亲眼见证自己的变化。
2.No one cares about me.
To accurately say that your family and friends don't care about you wouldbe a very rare situation. Maybe you're being too negative and overlooking thegestures of love they show you. They don't even have to be big gestures, butit's the little things they do for you that count. And people may be reacting tothe energy you're putting out; perhaps you think they don't care about you soyou don't make any effort in your relationships. Start showing people you care,so they can show you back in kind. And if you don't have good relationships withthe people you know, what's stopping you from making new friends?
没人关心我。
家人朋友都不关心你，这种情况其实不太常见。可能你过于消极的想法使你忽略了他们对你表达的爱。他们甚至并不需要为你做什么惊天动地的大事，正是一些小事才真正打动人心。或者你觉得没人关心你，所以无需再经营人际关系，但其实也许人们只有在感知到你的付出后，才会对你进行回报;关心别人，别人才会关心你。如果你和周围人的关系处理不好，为何不结交些新朋友?
3.I really dislike this person.
If you dislike a person in your work or personal life, focusing on her badqualities is not going to make things better. You need to let go of yourassumptions about her and know that she is human too, which means she makesmistakes. Either you move on and stop thinking and talking about her, or learnto approach her or think about her in a positive manner. Focus on her goodqualities, and repeat them to yourself instead of honing in on the unpleasantthings.
我真的不喜欢这个人。
如果工作或生活中有你讨厌的人，只关注她的缺点有害无益。你需要放下对她的所有成见，告诉自己她也是个人，也有犯错的时候。要么就不再谈论她和想着她，要么学着去接近她，或想想她好的一面。多想想她的优点，不要再专注于让你不开心的事情。
4.Why is she better off?
Comparing yourself to someone else is never productive or positive. There'salways going to be someone who is younger, prettier, smarter, or richer thanyou. If you keep coveting what someone else has, then this may cause you to beresentful of them, which will open a whole other negative can of worms.Remember, what they don't have is your whole package. Be appreciative of whatyou have, because if you want to play the comparison game, remember that thereare people who are also worse off than you are.
为什么她比我好?
和别人比较永远不是有效率和积极的表现。总有比你年轻，漂亮，聪明，富有的人。如果你始终关注别人拥有什么，会带来你对他们的恨意，随即带来更多消极的想法。记住，你所拥有的也是他们所没有的。珍惜你所拥有的东西，如果真的想和别人比较，也别忘了总有比你差的人。
5.I'll never reach my goal.
If you think you're not going to be able "get there," think again. Thereare many people who are worse off and have overcome bigger obstacles than whatyou are facing. Take, for example, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, an amputeewho overcame his handicap to compete in the Olympics against his able-bodiedpeers. Everything is within your reach as long as you work hard and have a apositive attitude.
我永远无法达到目标。
如果你认为自己达不到，再想想。比你差的人比比皆是，他们遇到的困难也比你的更大。比如，奥运会短跑选手刀锋战士奥斯卡·皮斯托利斯，一个被截肢的运动员，战胜了自己的阻碍，在其他健壮的对手中脱颖而出赢得了奥运会的冠军。只要你努力付出，有着积极的信念，任何事都能够做到。
Often listen to other people singing, and she is often the first hummedjiang yuheng look back again, but the "once in the faint after repeatedly topursue, just know plain takes is the most true"
It would not agree. Prince "lonely" sings too detached - repeatedly topursue all his life, just the plain is true conclusions. Plain is the most true,at the end of the day is not unwilling to mediocrity, since GanWuWei? Once upona time, we have these in with the secondary color dream university students whoare Shouting: plain is the most true. And some people think that as long as"otherwise, serene life" can be free to live, have to zhuang zi's "inaction"thoughts to carry on the general trend. What makes us rich campus life fadecolor? What makes us real magma solidification, not blood from heart? Because wedon't have entered the dream of the ivory tower? Because we did not get out ofthe confused myself strip? Or because our hearts are really not young, is to seeeverything in the flat? No! All is not! Dominate the world
Is you, give up the world is still you.
The best life, not life expectancy of the people, but most can feel thelife of the people. In addition to you no into the ideal university,
You haven't noticed in addition to an almost successful love, in additionto the vanity in the air, in your heart you feel how much right to life? Life onearth gave you how many real burden on uneven? No! Because only in contemporaryChina, in our country where illiteracy and semiliterate hundreds of millions of,college students had been high social expectation, also looking forward to thesociety too much, just because we cannot properly estimate oneself, also can'tcorrectly understand society. The flat state of mind, that is still a badexcuse. Then, you ever also want to do something, but don't know where to start,follow, in front of the temptation away from the natural state, is the era ofmud and sand flow together tide carrying floating around. When you are tired towalk three hundred and sixty miles, you only to find that behind in addition tothe flat, what also have no.
No longer look back, not just the old operation, not just those of thestars at night and the moon, and in the passage of our youth. Four years, we arelucky enough to have the four years, but how many people had gone four years;How many people are still more to have these four years and in a stream and allkinds of simulation test, when we came out from their this kind ofcondition,
Walk into many people dream of university, is in pursuit of "plain is thetrue"?
In our day every four years, pour into the care of relatives and warm,their hard sweat, flowing silently support the choice to the children, theironly hope is that we could go the way of your own life. Do we pay our goldenyears, writing with the blood of parents is only in exchange for the plain?Everything is just in exchange for a 60 points of graduation card? Small to payfor each family, big to for the time that's gone, like how we can easilyidentify with "plain" is true? Don't be saddened leaves, as the spring raintears; Don't careless swing back the sun of summer, make till winter snow todecorate their veil; Years may wrinkle the skin, and lose enthusiasm wrinkle thesoul.
With new confidence, we try to take out our youth enthusiasm, graduatedfrom university four years, looking back, we don't have flat, regret the youth.Let our youth float in the sky!
Often listen to other people singing, and she is often the first hummedjiang yuheng look back again, but the "once in the faint after repeatedly topursue, just know plain takes is the most true"
It would not agree. Prince "lonely" sings too detached - repeatedly topursue all his life, just the plain is true conclusions. Plain is the most true,at the end of the day is not unwilling to mediocrity, since GanWuWei? Once upona time, we have these in with the secondary color dream university students whoare Shouting: plain is the most true. And some people think that as long as"otherwise, serene life" can be free to live, have to zhuang zi's "inaction"thoughts to carry on the general trend. What makes us rich campus life fadecolor? What makes us real magma solidification, not blood from heart? Because wedon't have entered the dream of the ivory tower? Because we did not get out ofthe confused myself strip? Or because our hearts are really not young, is to seeeverything in the flat? No! All is not! Dominate the world Is you, give up theworld is still you.
The best life, not life expectancy of the people, but most can feel thelife of the people. In addition to you no into the ideal university,
You haven't noticed in addition to an almost successful love, in additionto the vanity in the air, in your heart you feel how much right to life? Life onearth gave you how many real burden on uneven? No! Because only in contemporaryChina, in our country where illiteracy and semiliterate hundreds of millions of,college students had been high social expectation, also looking forward to thesociety too much, just because we cannot properly estimate oneself, also can'tcorrectly understand society. The flat state of mind, that is still a badexcuse. Then, you ever also want to do something, but don't know where to start,follow, in front of the temptation away from the natural state, is the era ofmud and sand flow together tide carrying floating around. When you are tired towalk three hundred and sixty miles, you only to find that behind in addition tothe flat, what also have no.
No longer look back, not just the old operation, not just those of thestars at night and the moon, and in the passage of our youth. Four years, we arelucky enough to have the four years, but how many people had gone four years;How many people are still more to have these four years and in a stream and allkinds of simulation test, when we came out from their this kind ofcondition,Walk into many people dream of university, is in pursuit of "plain isthe true"?
In our day every four years, pour into the care of relatives and warm,their hard sweat, flowing silently support the choice to the children, theironly hope is that we could go the way of your own life. Do we pay our goldenyears, writing with the blood of parents is only in exchange for the plain?Everything is just in exchange for a 60 points of graduation card? Small to payfor each family, big to for the time that's gone, like how we can easilyidentify with "plain" is true? Don't be saddened leaves, as the spring raintears; Don't careless swing back the sun of summer, make till winter snow todecorate their veil; Years may wrinkle the skin, and lose enthusiasm wrinkle thesoul.
With new confidence, we try to take out our youth enthusiasm, graduatedfrom university four years, looking back, we don't have flat, regret the youth.Let our youth float in the sky!
时常听别人哼唱，自己也时常哼唱着姜育恒的那首《再回首》，惟独对“曾经在幽幽暗暗反复复中追寻，才知道平平淡淡从从容容是最真”
这一句不愿认同。“孤独王子”唱得未免太超然了--一生反复追寻，就只得出了平淡是真的结论。平平淡淡是最真，说到底不就是自甘平庸、自甘无为吗?曾几何时，我们这些带着中学彩色梦走进大学校门的莘莘学子们也在高喊着：平平淡淡是最真。且有人认为只要“与世无争，恬淡一生”便可无忧无虑地生存，颇有要把老庄的“无为”思想发扬广大之势。是什么使我们丰富的校园生活渐退了缤纷的色彩呢?又是什么使我们真实的熔浆凝固，不在有来自内心深处的热血沸腾?是因为我们没有走进梦想中的象牙塔?是因为我们未走出自我困惑的地带?还是因为我们的心真的不在年轻，确实把一切都看得平淡了呢?不!都不是!主宰世界的是你，放弃世界的仍然是你。
生活得最好的人，不是寿命最长的人，而是最能感受生活的人。除了你没有走进理想的大学，
除了你没有把握住一次几乎成功的爱情，除了你心中那份虚荣于倨傲，你对生活究竟有多少正确的感受?生活究竟给过你多少真正的重荷于不平呢?没有!只因为在当代的中国，在我们这个文盲、半文盲数以亿计的国度里，大学生既被社会过高的期待，也过高地期待着社会，只因为我们不能正确地估计自己，也不能正确认识社会。那种求平淡的心态，仍是不思进取的借口。于是，你曾经也想要有所作为，却不知道从何做起，跟着感觉走，在各种诱惑面前远离本真状态，被泥沙俱下的时代大潮裹挟着四处漂流。当你疲倦地走过无数个三百六十五里，你才发现留在身后的除了那份平淡，什么也没有。
不再回头的，不只是那古老的辰光，也不只是那些个夜晚的星群和月亮，还有我们的青春在流逝着。四年，我们有幸拥有着这四年，但多少人的四年已一去不返;更还有多少人在为能拥有这四年而埋头于题海和各种各样的模拟考试中呢、当初我们从他们这种状况中走出来，
走进许多人梦寐以求的大学，难道就是为了追求“平平淡淡是最真”吗?
在我们四年的每个日子里，倾注了亲人的多少关怀和温暖，他们流淌着辛勤的血汗，默默地支持着子女的选择，他们惟一的希望就是我们能自己走自己的人生之路。难道我们付出我们的金色年华，挥洒着父母的血汗仅仅是为了换取这份平平淡淡吗?仅仅是为了换取一张各科都过了60分的毕业证吗?小到为了每个家庭的付出，大到为了那如水流逝的时光，我们怎么就可以轻易认同“平平淡淡”才是真呢?不要再为落叶伤感，为春雨掉泪;也不要满不在乎地挥退夏日的艳阳，让残冬的雪来装饰自己的面纱;岁月可使皮肤起皱，而失去热情，则使灵魂起皱。
拿出我们尝试的勇气，拿出我们青春的热情，大学四年毕业时，再回首，我们没有平淡、遗憾的青春。让我们的青春飞扬吧!
Teachers, students, good morning!
I am a grade class (147) in . This is very honored to speak at the opening ceremony on behalf of the grade students.
Enter the grade, of course, our main task is to learn, learning, learning, hard, hard, and try again. Each course should be comprehensive development, improve efficiency. "Knowledge is power", let's do a meet the requirements of the new century outstanding young, to lay a solid foundation for the construction of the motherland future.
Of course, I feel that learning is mainly pay attention to methods, rather than the constrained square, play time, rote learning, should live learning.
We should listen attentively in class, more, ask more, and actively cooperate with the teacher, solve difficult problems in preview, comply with every lesson, to every minute of every class quality.
After class to review relative to prepare more critical, important is not the amount of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Continue to consolidate the learned knowledge, make them take root in the brain, and thrive. Repetition is the mother of learning, it can not only help us to consolidate knowledge, more important is can comb knowledge, spencer once said: "if a person's knowledge of and that his knowledge, the more the more he felt confused."
The classmates, as long as we can cherish the time, the opportunity will in our hands, I believe that the third this year will bring us more surprise.
Students, youth is the flower of life, the biggest sorrow of life is to live up to the youth, let us join hands to work together!
老师们，同学们，上午好!
我是初三(147)班的。很荣幸这次能在开学典礼上代表初三同学发言。
进入初三，我们主要的任务当然是学习、学习、再学习，努力、努力、再努力。各门功课应全面发展，提高效率。“知识就是力量”，让我们做一个符合新世纪要求的优秀青年，为建设祖国的未来打下坚实的基础。
当然，我觉得学习主要是讲究方法，而不是拘泥古板，打时间仗，死记硬背，应当活学活用。
上课时我们要专心听讲，多思多问，与老师积极配合，解决预习中的疑难问题，紧守每一节课，向每一节课的每一分钟要质量。
课后复习相对于预习更关键，重要的不是知识的数量，而是知识的质量。不断巩固学过的知识，使它们在脑中生根发芽，并茁壮成长。重复是学习之母，它不仅能帮助我们巩固知识，更重要的是能梳理知识，斯宾塞曾说过：“如果一个人的知识缺乏条理，那他的知识越多，他就越感到困惑不解。”
同学们，只要我们能珍惜时间，那么机会就会在我们手上，我相信初三这一年一定会带给我们更多惊喜。
同学们，青春是人生之花，人生的最大悲痛莫过于辜负青春，让我们携起手来一起努力吧!
Melody of Youth
Ladies and gentlemen:
Good morning! I am very glad to stand here and share the topic of “youth” with you. I come from and my name is maxfu. Today my topic is “Melody of Youth”.
Some people say that youth is a rising sun, carries infinite hope and irradiates dazzling light.
Some people say that youth is a ball of blaze, flickers the flame of passion, dances the melody of youth.
Some people say that youth is a roaring river, bursts out the voice of confidence, flows the boldness of youth.
Some people say that youth is a fresh willow, has not only the endless tenderness, but also the iron will.
It’s true. Youth is ought to be a life with great persistence, which is full of hope, enthusiasm, assurance, belief and keep striving during all your life.
Since we know how wonderful the youth is, how can we build our own youth wonderful?
Firstly, I think you should set an ambition. Sam Walton has told us: High expectation is the key to everything. Ideals are the navigation mark and ambitions are the power for our striving.
Secondly, I think you should think more. Look before you leap, we are impetuous, if we consider everything calmly; there’s nothing that we can not do successfully.
Thirdly, I think you should work hard. An idle youth， a needy age. When we are young we are supposed to struggle, to do everything by ourselves so that we can get more experience for our future. As it’s said the beautiful rainbow always appears after a ding-on and the wealthy harvest always comes from laborious tillage.
Lastly, I think you should have a mood of optimism. Being positive, when we meet the frustration, can help us learn how to he stronger. Cause we are young, there’s no fail if only we try it again. Don’t get dizzy with success, and don’t get upset with failure.
By the way, being in youth doesn’t only mean you are young at your age. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. 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 up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.
Youth is a painting, which engraves by magnificent and wonderful color. Youth is a song, which resounds with brightness and sweetness. When we are provided with passion and calm consideration, clinging goals and keep striving during all of our life. We can sooner or later have a perfect youth, a regretless youth, and make our melody of youth more and more wonderful!
That’s all. Thank you!
Dstinguished judges, teachers, dear friends:
Hello, everyone! My name is cheng xiang yan , I am a junior student come from life science institution .Today, I am very glad to stand here and share with you my most sincere speech‘Flying youth, master our future!’
Life is a process of growing up. Saying goodbye to childhood, we step into another important time of life in the pace of young, facing new situations, dealing with different problems.....
However, who can really say what the youth is ? A period of time? A belief?An attitude to life? Or anything else? actually, everyone has his ownunderstanding of young, it is a period of time of beauty and wonders, only after you have experienced the sour , sweet ,bitter and salty, can you really become a person of significance.
Just like A famous poet said ‘ youth is a lovely song ,where nothing is impossible ,youth is a meaningful book, you’ll be never bored of it ;youth is a rapid river ,it keeps on flowing day and night ;youth is a cup of tea ,it shows you different kinds of tastes in your life.
As youth is so precious, of course, we must treasure it .Don’t let the limited time pass by, grasping the young will means a better time is waiting for you in the near future.
So,It’s necessary for us to prepare ourselves well for the future to come. having a view on those great men in the history of hunman being, they all made full use of their youth time to do things that are useful to society, to the whole mankind, and as a consequence ,they are remembered by later generations, admired by everyone. so do something in the time of young, although you may not get achievements as these greatmen did ,though not for the whole world, just for youeself, for those around! So, what should we do when we are young? Here,I’ll point out some tips to help equip ourselves.
First of all,think of what you’d like to be some day. A teacher ? A doctor ? A writer? Don’t afraid of dreaming of big and great .Since you are young , you can dream of doing anything and becoming anyone in the future. What’s more , never ignore the power of knowledge. Read more books and travel around. For one thing, it can increase your knowledge, for another, it’ll broaden your horizon.
Last but not the least , stick to your dream. It easier said than done. After all, future is not all roses. young is just like blooming flowers, they are so beautiful when blooming, which make people feel happy, but with time passing by, after they withers ,most people think they are ugly. and so it is the same with young, we are enthusiastic when we are young, then we may lose our passion when getting older and older. So we should have enough courage and determination to overcome all the difficulties in struggling on the road.
I firmly believe one sentence that‘If you think you can, of course you can!’Just believe we can make it! Keep on walking towards our dream. Flying youth , master our future. From today, from now on , are you Ready ? That’s all. Thank you so much for your attention !
“Once upon a time， there was a king who had a daughter as beautiful as a blooming rose. To all the suitors who came to the king's palace to ask for the hand of the princess, the old king assigned three tasks to be accomplished, each next to impossible. One day, into the king's palace came a handsome young prince…" Well, you know the rest. The three tasks may be different in different versions, but the main plot is always the same, with the prince claiming the princess's hand triumphantly.
And the ending is always the same, finishing with the line "And they live happily every after."
Why aren't we tired of something so fanciful, so unrealistic, and, I would say, so unimaginative? How can a story like that endure generations of repetition`? Because, I think, it is a typical success story. It is highly philosophical and symbolic. By implication, we see a 4-step definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting difficulties, as represented by the ordeals the youth goes through; and 4 ) the reward of success, as represented by the happy marriage.
The story not only caters to everyone's inward yearning for success, but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the result. The reward of success will be much amplified if the path leading towards it is treacherous, and vice versa. If a person inherits his father's millions and leads an easy life, he is not a successful person even in material terms, because there are no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence. The term "success", to be sure. will not sit still for easy definition. But as I understand it, the true meaning of success entails a combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of an endeavor. To clarify my view, let me give another analogy.
If we changed the rules of football, greatly enlarged the goal and sent away David Seaman or any other goal keeper, so that another David, namely David Beckham, could score easily, then scoring would not give him the thrill of accomplishment and the joy that it brings. If we further changed the rules by not allowing Arsenal's defenders to defend, so that Beckham needed only to lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no game at all, because the meaning of winning would have disappeared. In accepting the challenge, in surmounting the difficulties and in enduring the hardship, success acquires its value. The sense of attainment varies in proportion to the degree of difficulties on overcomes.
The concept of success is not constant but relative because the nature of difficulty is also relative. Something you do effortlessly might pose a great difficulty for a handicapped person. In acquiring the ability to do the same as you can, he or she achieve success. That's why we greatly admire Stephen Hawking, because, though confined to a wheel chair, he has contributed greatly to the field of science.
I myself, a rather shy person by nature who easily suffer from stage fright, had to pluck up great courage to take part in a speech contest like this. I could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not entering the university level contest.But I chose to accept the challenge and to face the difficulties. Now here I am. If I come out first, it will be a great success for me. If I come out last-I hope this will not be the case-but if I come out last, I will not call my attempt a failure, but will also celebrate it as a true success, because part of my goal is my own character training-to do more assertive, to be brave in face of difficulties. For me, it is a meaningful step forward, small as it is, in the long journey toward the final success in my life, because I have truly gained by participating.
Let us return to our handsome young prince and the 4-step definition of success. You my have noticed that the usual worldly criteria of wealth, position and fame were not mentioned as part of the story, but rather, it emphasized the process of overcoming difficulties. The ancient wisdom had already defined the meaning of success, and this is my definition, too.
Thank you.