世界领袖人物的励志演讲，摘录分享：

1.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.(但是你要明白，信仰和信念有助于完成个人使命，但是如果你只是站立而不去行动，那么这将对任何人毫无意义，尤其是那些关心你的人。)

2.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.(有时竞争是很困难的，特别是在公开的场合中，当自己的失败在每个人面前显露出来时，你并不清楚以后会发生什么。然而，在人生的大部分时光里，无论我们接受与否，我们是在同自己竞争，并拼尽全力努力做到最好；而在学习、工作、生活中，我们也是在同他人竞争。)

3.Degrees and honors are far from the full measure of life. Nor is that measure taken in wealth or in titles. What matters most are the standards you live by, the consideration you show others, and the way you use the gifts you are given.(学位和荣誉不能衡量生命。财富或头衔也不能衡量生命。最重要的是你生活的标准，对他人展现的关心和运用天赋的方式。)

4.Life is ours to live, but not to waste, and that the greatest rewards are found in the commitments we make with our whole hearts——to the people we love and to the causes that earn our sacrifice.(我们应该好好生活而不是浪费生命，也明白生命的最高奖励在于全心全意献身于所爱之人，献身于理想与事业。)

5.Feel as well as analyze; use your instinct alongside your reason. Calculate too much and you will miscalculate.(既要会分析，也要用感觉；既要保持理性，也要学会利用直觉。过于算计只会聪明反被聪明误。)

6.Be good to people on your way up because you never know if you will meet them again on your way down.(当你青云直上时，要友善待人，因为你永远不知道当你处于下坡路时是否会遇见他们。)

7.Life is not about living but about striving.When you get up, get up motivated. Live with a perpetual sense of urgency. And make at least part of that purpose about something bigger than you.(生活不是活着的过程，而是奋斗的过程。当你开始行动时，行动必须要有目的性。生活中时刻要有紧迫感。同时，至少要把一部分目标定得超出你当前的能力。)

8.Giving hefts the heart in a way that getting never can.(在某种程度上，给予能够提升人的心灵，这是索取永远也做不到的。)

9.Be a doer not a commentator. Seek responsibility rather shirk it. (要做一个行动者而非评论家。要勇于承担责任而非逃避责任。)

10.Leadership is about wanting the responsibility to be on your shoulders, not ignoring its weight but knowing someone has to carry it and, reaching out for that person to be you. Leaders are heatseekers not heat-deflectors.(领导力是希望肩负责任，而非忽略责任之重；是知道必须有人站出来承担责任，然后努力使自己成为那个人；领导人是勇于承担责任而非逃避责任的人。)

11.For the more we can appreciate one another's perpective, the more dimension and depth we add to our own.(我们越能欣赏他人的观点，就越能增加自己观点的广度和深度。)

12.When we shine the light of inquiry...broad-mindedness...and compassion...that is how we find our way to our own best selves. The more open we become, the more we find we can contain. It's the "lux" that leads the way to "veritas".(当我们的洞察力、开阔的胸襟和同情心熠熠闪烁时，我们就可以成就最好的自己。我们越开放，就会发现自己越能容忍。光明指引走向真理的道路。)

参考书目：

成应翠，杨春丽. 《耶鲁演讲——唤醒你心中的巨人》[M]. 北京：北京航空航天大学出版社，2015.6