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第一篇：名人名校勵志英語演講稿
dare to compete, dare to care 敢於競爭，勇於關愛---美國國務卿希拉里·克林頓耶魯大學演講
dare to compete. dare to care. dare to dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going. 要敢於競爭，敢於關愛，敢於憧憬，大膽去愛！要努力創造奇蹟！無論發生什麼，即使有人在你背後大聲喊叫，也要勇往直前。
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it is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary. i have had so many memories of my time here, and as nick was speaking i thought about how i ended up at yale law school. and it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.
what i think most about when i think of yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that i received. it was at yale that i began work that has been at the core of what i have cared about ever since. i began working with new haven legal services representing children. and i studied child development, abuse and neglect at the yale new haven hospital and the child study center. i was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with marian wright edelman at the children’s defense fund, where i went to work after i graduated. those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.
now, looking back, there is no way that i could have predicted what path my life would have taken. i didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, i think i’ll graduate and then i’ll go to work at the children’s defense fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and nixon retired or resigns, i’ll go to arkansas. i didn’t think like that. i was taking each day at a time.
but, i’ve been very fortunate because i’ve always had an idea in my mind about what i thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose. a set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in. a passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light. because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her god-given potential.
but you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.
when i was thinking about running for the united states senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one i never could have dreamed that i would have been making when i was
here on campus-i visited a school in new york city and i met a young woman, who was a star athlete.
i was there because of billy jean king promoting an hbo special about women in sports called “dare to compete.” it was about title ix and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports.
and although i played not very well at intramural sports, i have always been a strong supporter of women in sports. and i was introduced by this young woman, and as i went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying i should or shouldn’t run for the senate. and i was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and she said, “dare to compete, mrs. clinton. dare to compete.”
i took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next. and yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are competing with others.
i took her advice and i did compete because i chose to do so. and the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to make. i’m sure you’ll receive good advice. you’re got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and i hope that you will dare to compete. and by that i don’t mean the kind of cutthroat competition that is too often characterized by what is driving america today. i mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.
and it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed. in fact, you won’t. there are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments. you will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you. but if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others. you can get back up, you can keep going.
but it is also important, as i have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit. i think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own. i chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything i’ve ever done, determined my course.
you compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born knowing too well what their futures will be. they lack the freedom to choose their life’s path. they’re imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.
so, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to care. dare to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own lives. there are so many out there and
sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already. i know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.
you have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. you have dared to care.
well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry. dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources. dare to care about protecting our environment. dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance. dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail. the seven million people who suffer from hiv/aids. and thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with hiv/aids, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further.
and i’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process. you know, as i go and speak with students i’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve. you may have missed the last wave of the revolution, but you’ve understood that the unity revolution is there for you every single day. and you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.
and yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process. i hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy.
your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.
and so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. some have called you the generation of choice. you’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. you’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.
you’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. and i think as i look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.
the social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down.
community service and religious involvement being up. but if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale. many of you i know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.
well, i admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. but at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national peril. political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as community. americorps and the peace corps exist because of political decisions. our air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political choices. our ability to cure disease or log onto the internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments. ethnic cleansing in kosovo ended because of political leadership. your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation systems. many used gi bills or government loans, as i did, to attend college.
now, i could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its claim. and, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to participate. it is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly now. there’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.
it is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.
but as many have said before and as vaclav havel has said to memorably, “it cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions. it is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth and of our deeds.” and i think we are called on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our god-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world.
during my campaign, when times were tough and days were long i used to think about the example of harriet tubman, a heroic new yorker, a 19th century moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. she would say to those who she gathered up in the south where she kept going back year after year from the safety of auburn, new york, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going. if they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going. if they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom. well, those aren’t the risks we face. it is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.
thirty-two years ago, i spoke at my own graduation from wellesley, where i did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to
embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible.
for after all, our fate is to be free. to choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over hate.
just as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new life. and as i think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, i have a sense of what their feeling. their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own american dreams. well, i applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as i applaud your daughters and sons for theirs.
and i leave these graduates with the same message i hope to leave with my graduate. dare to compete. dare to care. dare to dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.
thank you and god bless you all.
第二篇：英語名人名言勵志篇
(請幫助宣傳好範文 網)英語名人名言
for one, one for all.
人人為我，我為人人。—— [法] dumas pére大仲馬
r men live to eat, while i eat to live.
別人為食而生存，我為生存而食。—— socrates 蘇格拉底
come, easy go.
易得者亦易失。 —— hazlitt赫斯特
rules his kingdom without a sword.
愛，統治了他的王國，不用一枝利劍。—— herbert 赫伯特
soon believe what we desire.
我們慾望中的東西，我們很快就信以為真。—— chaucer喬叟
darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明前的時分是最黑暗的。—— fuller 富勒
longest day has an end.
最難過的日子也有盡頭。—— howell 賀韋爾
ng without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活而無目標，猶如航海之無指南針。—— j. ruskin 魯斯金
9.a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
手中的一隻鳥勝於林中的兩隻鳥。—— heywood 希伍德
swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。—— taverner 泰維納
11.a man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.
一個人可以把馬帶到河邊，但他不能令它飲水。 —— heywood 希伍德
cannot eat one’s cake and have it.
一個人不能把他的糕餅吃掉之後還留在手上。 —— davies 戴維斯
is money.
時間就是金錢。—— benjamin franklin富蘭克林
and tide wait for no man.
時間不等人。—— scott 斯科特
e is no rose without a thorn.
沒有玫瑰花是不長刺的。—— ray 雷
ers-on see most of the game.
旁觀者清。—— smedley 斯密萊
ars cannot be choosers.
行乞者不得有選擇。—— heywood 希伍德
t catch your hare.
首先必須捕獲兔子，然後才能宰之。—— thackeray 薩克雷
ory won’t come to me unless i go to it.
勝利是不會向我走來的，我必須自己走向勝利。—— m. moore 穆爾
20.a great man is always willing to be little.
偉大的人物總是願意當小人物的。—— r. w. emerson 愛默生
rds die many times before their deaths.
懦夫在未死之前，已身歷多次死亡的恐怖了。 —— julius caesar 凱撒
hing one man can imagine, other men can make real.
但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能將它實現。 —— jules verne 凡爾納
y to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
早睡早起使人健康、富裕又聰明。—— benjamin franklin 富蘭克林
is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
生活只是由一系列下決心的努力所構成。—— t. fuller 富勒
s determine what you are going to be.
目標決定你將成為為什麼樣的人。—— julius erving歐文
human wisdom is summed up in two words ?c wait and hope.
人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個詞 — 等待和希望。—— alexandre dumas pére大仲馬（法國作家）
is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. what are you industrious for?
光勤勞是不夠的，螞蟻也是勤勞的。要看你為什麼而勤勞。—— h. d. thoreau梭羅
have to believe in yourself. that’s the secret of success.
人必須相信自己，這是成功的祕訣。—— charles chaplin卓別林
第三篇：英語勵志名人名言
英語勵志名人名言
1、all things in their being are good for something.天生我才必有用。
2、difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。
3、failure is the mother of success.——thomas paine失敗乃成功之母。
4、living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——john ruskin生活沒有目標，猶如航海沒有羅盤。-- 羅斯金
5、an aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.——robert louis stevenson生活的目標，是唯一值得尋找的財富。-- 史蒂文森
6、you have to believe in yourself. that's the secret of success.——charles chaplin人必須有自信，這是成功的祕密。——卓別林 1. time flies.時光易逝2. time is money.一寸光陰一寸金。3. time and tide wait for no man.歲月無情；歲月易逝；歲月不待人。4. time tries all.時間檢驗一切。5. time tries truth.時間檢驗真理。6. time past cannot be called back again.光陰一去不復返。
7. all time is no time when it is past.光陰一去不復返。
8. no one can call back yesterday. yesterday will not be called again.昨日不復來。
9. tomorrow comes never.切莫依賴明天。
today is worth two tomorrows.一個今天勝似兩個明天。
morning sun never lasts a day.好景不常；朝陽不能光照全日。
stmas comes but once a year.聖誕一年只一度。
sant hours fly past.快樂時光去如飛。
iness takes no account of time.歡娛不惜時光逝。
tames the strongest grief.時間能緩和極度的悲痛。
day is short but the work is much.工作多，光陰迫。
r deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.今日事須今日畢，切勿拖延到明天。
you somewhat to do tomorrow， do it today.明天如有事，今天就去做。
him that does everything in its proper time，one day is worth three.事事及時做，一日勝三日。
save time is to lengthen life.節省時間就是延長生命。
ything has its time and that time must be watched.萬物皆有時，時來不可失。
time when time comes lest time steal away.時來必須要趁時，不然時去無聲息。
an opportunity is neglected， it never comes back to you.機不可失，不再來；機會一過，永不再來。
hay while the sun shines.曬草要趁太陽好。
ke while the iron is hot.趁熱打鐵。
today， for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻礙多。
tuality is the soul of business.守時為立業之要素。
rastination is the thief of time.因循拖延是時間的大敵；拖延就是浪費時間。
ledge is power.知識就是力量。
om is more to be envied than riches.知識可羨，勝於財富。
om is better than gold or silver.知識勝過金銀
om in the mind is better than money in the hand.胸中有知識，勝於手中有錢。
om is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.為了求知識，代價雖高也值得。
t is the key of knowledge.懷疑是知識之鑰。
you want knowledge， you must toil for it.若要求知識，須從勤苦得。
37.a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.淺學誤人。
38.a handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.少量的常識，當得大量的學問。
ledge advances by steps and not by leaps.知識只能循序漸進，不能躍進。
n wisdom by the follies of others.從旁人的愚行中學到聰明。
is good to learn at another man's cost.前車可鑑。
om is to the mind what health is to the body.知識之於精神，一如健康之於肉體。
rience is the best teacher.經驗是最好的教師。
rience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.經驗是知識之父，記憶是知識之母。
erity comes by experience.熟練來自經驗。
tice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
rience keeps a dear school， but fools learn in no other.經驗學校學費高，愚人旁處學不到。
48. experience without learning is better than learning without experience.有經驗而無學問，勝於有學問而無經驗。
once bought is worth twice taught.由經驗而得的智慧，勝於學習而得的智慧；一次親身的體會，勝過兩次的教師教導。
ng is believing.百聞不如一見。
ness is the salt of life.事業是生命之鹽。
ness before pleasure.事業在先，享樂在後。
ness makes a man as well as tries him.事業可以考驗人，也可以造就人。
ness neglected is business lost.忽視職業便是放棄職業。
r think yourself above business.勿自視過高；不要眼高手低；永遠不要認為自己是大才小用。
ness may be troublesome， but idleness is pernicious.事業雖擾人，懶惰害更大。
that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.自命大才小用，往往眼高手低。
business， but be not a slave to it.要做事，但不要做事務的奴隸。
ybody's business is nobody's business.眾人的事就是無人過問的事。
makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。
er master one than engage with ten.會十事，不如精一事。
62.a work ill done must be twice done.首次做不好，必須重新搞。
who cannot do as they would， must do as they can.不能如願而行，也須盡力而為。
you would have a thing well done， do it yourself.想把事情來做好，就得親自動手搞。
that doth most at once doth least.什麼都想一次做完，結果一件也做不完；貪多嚼不爛。
as most men do and men will speak well of thee.照大多數人那樣幹，人們會把你稱讚。
may be done at any time will be done at no time.在任何時候都可做的事情，總是在任何時候都不做的事情。
er late than never.遲做總比不做好。
ever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
shortest answer is doing the thing.最簡短的回答就是一個"幹"字。
on is the proper fruit of knowledge.行動是知識之佳果。
shed labours are pleasant.完成工作是一樂。
is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.沒有土壤，播種也是徒勞。
is right to put everything in its proper use.凡事都應用得其所。
irs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.按部就班，事情很快就做完。
work and no play makes jack a dull boy.只工作，不玩耍，聰明小孩也變傻。
bears witness who does well.工作能證明誰做的好。
is not work that kills， but worry.工作不會傷身，傷身乃是憂慮。
that will not work shall not eat.不工作者不得食。
ness is business.公事公辦。
berate slowly，執行 promptly.慢慢酌量，快快行動。
your shoulder to the wheel.努力工作。
r do things by halves.做事不要半途而廢。
for a penny， in for a pound.做事一開頭，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
hands make quick work.人多幹活快。
hands make light work.眾擎易舉。
87.a bad workman quarrels with his tools.技術拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
gence is the mother of success.勤奮是成功之母。
ness is the root of all evil.懶惰乃萬惡之源。
and diligence bring luck.謹慎和勤奮帶來好運。
gence is the mother of good fortune.勤勉是好運之母。
stry is fortune's right hand，and frugality her left.勤勉是幸運的右手，世儉是幸運的左手。
ness is the key of beggary.懶惰出乞丐。
root， no fruit.無根就無果。
people （folks） have the most labour （take the most pains）。懶人做工作，越懶越費力。
h is the key of poverty.惰能致貧。
h tarnishes the edge of wit.懶散能磨去才智的鋒芒。
idle brain is the devil's workshop.懶漢的頭腦是魔鬼的工廠。
secret of wealth lies in the letters save.節儉是致富的祕訣。
100. an idle youth， a needy age.少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲
101. there is only one me in this world. 在這個世界上，我是獨一無二的
102.i'm on the top of the world.我是世界之王
103. i'm the best！i'm the greatest！ i'm invincible！我是最棒的。我是不可征服的。 104. i'm ready for any challenge. 我已經準備好應付任何挑戰
105. the future is in my hands. it's totally up to me.我的未來我作主。
106. i'm born to succeed.我註定成功。
find friendship offer friendship以友誼換友誼
friendship lasts forever真正的友誼恆久不變。
ndship is like wine---the older the better友誼像美酒,越陳越醇厚。 110.a little help is worth a deal of pity. 一點幫助勝於一車同情。
111.a faithful friend is hard to fin益友難得
112.a friend in need is a friend indeed. 患難朋友才是真朋
113.a friend without faults will never be found. 沒有缺點的朋友是永遠找不到的。 114.a life without a friend is a life without a sun
第四篇：名人英文勵志演講稿
新一代大學英語四六級領軍人物，英語專家、文化學者、出版人、策劃人，“振宇英語”創始人，噹噹網外語圖書熱門作者。
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對於英語學習者來説，多聽多看多練英語演講是學地道英語的最佳有效途徑之一，也是訓練語音語調最有效的輔助手段。你不用擔心這些演講是否有語法問題，也不用擔心用詞是否準確，表達是否到位。因為一些名人的演講稿通常是字斟句酌精心完成的。此外，通過演講學英語還可以潛移默化地幫助自己提升對英文的駕馭能力，增強英語的語感和美感。
本書精選了19篇具有代表性的名人的英語演講。這些名人或是國家領袖，或是關心民權民生的政治人物，或是創造經濟財富的精英，或是用文字抒發情懷的作家記者，或是演藝界的娛樂名人。他們都在自己的領域裏作出了傑出的貢獻。他們思想深刻，見解獨到，註定是站在時代前列的人。
這些名人的演講充滿了智慧，富含啟迪。它們或是結合自身經歷立足於個人發展的諄諄教誨，像亞馬遜ceo傑夫·貝索斯在普林斯頓大學演講，他講了自己創業的故事，以此鼓勵畢業生：未來掌握在自己的手中，追尋自己的夢想，慎重選擇;或是號召民眾面對困難迎難而上，像美國第32任總統富蘭克林·羅斯福，他就任於美國經濟大蕭條時期，國內民生凋敝，萎靡不振，他告訴大家，我們惟一害怕的是害怕本身，展示了帶領民眾走出低谷的豪情;或者充滿人文關懷，如美國著名作家威廉·福克納，站在人類精神的高度，勉勵作家文人心中時時充滿愛、憐憫、同情和犧牲的精神;或是顯示了追求自由平等的決心，如馬釘路德·金和南非總統曼德拉，他們在演講中都表達了誓死捍衞民-主和自由的決心;或是顯示了對家庭的愛，並把這種愛昇華為“老吾老，以及人之老;幼吾幼，以及人之幼”，如米歇爾·奧巴馬，她在演講中表達了對家庭的熱愛，同時也為丈夫競選吶喊助威----如果巴拉克·奧巴馬當選總統，將會保證每個美國人都能享受衞生保健，確保本國的每個孩子都能得到世界一流的教育。精選出的這些演講名篇題材涉獵廣泛，風格迥異。無論你是被其恢宏的氣勢所震撼，還是被其精深的意藴所折服，亦或是為其詼諧幽默而莞爾，都能感受到演講者所傳遞的共同心聲：一定要奮發向上，積極進取，做出個人應有的成績，為時代，為國家做貢獻。
隨書贈送的mp3演講音頻，為演講者的原聲音頻。這些聲音鏗鏘有力，或給你啟迪，或讓你感動，或給你温暖，或激發你前行的信念。同時，也讓你更有機會品味最地道的英語表達。此外，在每一篇文章之後，都附有提煉出的演講中具有指引性、勵志性的“經典語錄”，方便模仿與背誦。地道實用的英語學得多了積累得多了，你就能很自然地表達出極為純正的英語，既能提升你的書面語表達能力，也可以提升你的口語表達能力。
準備好了嗎?讓我們從現在開始，去聆聽那些温暖人心的聲音吧!
第五篇：名人勵志演講稿~
1、奧斯特洛夫斯基
命運對奧斯特洛夫斯基是殘酷的：他念過三年國小，青春消逝在疾馳的戰馬與槍林彈雨中。16歲時，他腹部與頭部嚴重負傷，右眼失明。20歲時，又因關節硬化而卧牀不起。面對着命運的嚴峻挑戰，他深切地感到：“在生活中沒比掉隊更可怕的事情了。”奧斯特洛夫斯基與命運進行了英勇的抗爭：他不想躺在殘廢榮譽軍人的功勞簿上向祖國和人民伸手，他用沸騰的精力讀完了函授大學的全部課程，如飢似渴地閲讀俄羅斯與世界文學名著。書籍召喚他前進，書籍陪伴他披荊斬棘。
奧斯特洛夫斯基思想的烈馬，馳騁在烏克蘭與波蘭交界的遼闊的原野上，他口授的每一個字母都像無情的子彈，射向入侵的德國強盜。
2.張海迪
1955年秋天在濟南出生。5歲患脊髓病，胸以下全部癱瘓。從那時起，張海迪開始了她獨到的人生。她無法上學，便在在家自學完中學課程。 在殘酷的命運挑戰面前，張海迪沒有沮喪和沉淪 ，她以頑強的毅力和恆心與疾病做鬥爭，經受了嚴峻的考驗，對人生充滿了信心。她雖然沒有機會走進校門，卻發憤學習，學完了國小、中學全部課程，自學了大學英語、日語、德語和世界語，並攻讀了大學和碩士研究生的課程。為了對社會作出更大的貢獻，她先後自學了十幾種醫學專著，同時向有經驗的醫生請教，學會了鍼灸等醫術，為羣眾無償治療
達1萬多人次。
我們都是四肢健全的人，所以更我們應該珍惜眼前的學習機會。
3. 愛迪生
在愛迪生髮明燈泡的時候他失敗了很多次 ，當他用到一千多種材料做燈絲的時候，助手對他説：“你已經失敗了一千多次了，成功已經變得渺茫，還是放棄吧！”但愛迪生卻説：“到現在我的收穫還不錯，起碼我發現有一千多種材料不能做燈絲。”最後，他經過六千多次的實驗終於成功了。
我們可以試想，如果愛迪生在助手勸他停止實驗的時候放棄了，我們現在會怎麼樣呢？可能我們還要點只有豆粒般大小的油燈在夜裏照明。其實愛迪生的每次試驗失敗都可以看作是挫折。這麼一算，愛迪生髮明電燈也就是遇上了六千多次的挫折，這是一個多麼驚人的數目啊！
4.林肯
生下來就一貧如洗的林肯，終其一生都在面對挫敗，八次競選八次落敗，兩次經商失敗，甚至還精神崩潰過一次。好多次，他本可以放棄，但他並沒有如此，也正因為 他沒有放棄，才成為美國曆史上最偉大的總統之一。此路艱辛而泥濘。我一隻腳滑了一下，另一隻腳也因而站不穩;但我緩口氣，告訴自己，"這不過是滑一跤，並不是死去而爬
不起來。" ——林肯在競選參議員落敗後如是説
我們有的時候受到一次挫折，或經受到一次失敗，就灰心喪氣，認為自己一無是處，看看愛迪生和林肯，我們就會明白人的一生不是一帆風順的，關鍵是學會堅持，永不放棄。
4.霍金
隨着年齡漸長，小霍金對萬事萬物如何運行開始感興趣起來，他經常把東西拆散以追根究底，但在把它們恢復組裝回去時，他卻束手無策，不過，他的父母並沒有因此而責罰他，他的父親甚至給他擔任起數學和物理學“教練”。在十三四歲時，霍金髮現自己對物理學方面的研究非常有興趣，雖然中學物理學太容易太淺顯，顯得特別枯燥，但他認為這是最基礎的科學，有望解決人們從何處來和為何在這裏的問題。從此，霍金開始了真正的科學探索。，如飢似渴的投入到學習和研究當中，並最終成為一代大師，給不看好他的人當頭棒喝。
霍金雖然身體的殘疾越來越重，但卻力圖像普通人一樣生活，完成自己所能做的任何事情。他甚至是活潑好動的——這聽起來有些好笑，在他已經完全無法移動之後，他仍然堅持用唯一可以活動的手指驅動着輪椅在前往辦公室的路上“橫衝直撞”；
·威廉·霍金認為他一生的貢獻是在經典物理的框架裏，證明了黑洞和大爆炸奇點的不可避免性，黑洞越變越大；但在量子物理的框架裏，他指出，黑洞因輻射而越變越小，大爆炸的奇點不斷被量子效應所抹平，而且整個宇宙正是起始於此。
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