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1、1文名人名校励志英语演讲稿： Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱-美国国务卿希拉里克林顿耶鲁大学演讲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. 要敢于竞争，敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，也要勇往直前。 It
2、 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 weve made.What I t
3、hink 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 representi
4、ng 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 Childrens Defense Fund, where I went to work after I graduated. Those experiences fuele
5、d in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.2Now, looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path my life would have taken. I didnt sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, I think Ill graduate and then Ill go to work at the C
6、hildrens Defense Fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, Ill go to Arkansas. I didnt think like that. I was taking each day at a time.But, Ive been very fortunate because Ive always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning
7、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 alway
8、s 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 tha
9、t 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
10、decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I 3would 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. woman, who was a star athlete.I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women in
11、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
12、 young woman, and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying I should or shouldnt 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 compet
13、e.”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 dont 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 t
14、o 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 youll face in your life will be yours alone to make. 4Im sure youll receive good advic
15、e. Youre 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 dont mean the kind of cutthroat competition that is too often characterized by what is driving America today. I mean the s
16、mall voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.And it doesnt mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed. In fact, you wont. 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
