Excerpt of English speeches and classic sentences

Answer 1

Here are some classic phrases from English speeches:
1.“Optimism is a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.”Opticism is a belief that we can make the future better. Therefore, no matter how much suffering we witness, no matter how bad the situation, as long as we do not lose hope and do not turn a blind eye, we can help others.)
2.“The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.”The most important thing in life is to have a positive and complete life. Don't succumb to peer pressure and become someone who doesn't conform to your nature.
3.“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language,that goes to his heart.”(If you talk to someone in a language they can understand, the conversation will enter their brain. If you talk to them in their language, the conversation will enter their hearts.)
4.“The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena.”(Life can't just sit in the audience, the world needs you to step into the arena.)
5.“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”(Even if you choose a path you don't like, you may fail. So you can try to give it a try and do what you like.)
6.“You, young women of Barnard have not had to squeeze yourself into the corset of being cute or to muffle your opinions.”(Dear young Barnard women, you need not stuff yourselves into cute tight bellies, or suppress your opinions.)
7.“You'll never move others, heart to heart, unless your speech comes from your heart.”(You can't touch the heartstrings of others if you don't mean what you say.)
8.“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”(Our lives are wasted on trifles…simplify, simplify.)
9.“Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is to take a complete rest.”(Sometimes the most urgent and important thing you can do is to take a complete rest.)
10.“We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.”(We don't have to say our dreams, we just have to show them.)
11.“Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling.”Laziness is like a lock that locks up the storehouse of knowledge and makes your intelligence scarce.
12.“Confidence is contagious. So is a lack of confidence.”(Confidence is contagious, and so is lack of confidence.)
13.“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.”We should add as much as we can to our lives, not take anything from them.
14.“Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”Self-discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
15.“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”When regrets replace dreams, people begin to grow old.
16.“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”(To devote oneself completely to activities that require mental effort is to have achieved success in life.)
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