Ladies and Gentlemen , Good afternoon! I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is “youth”. I hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it. Do you know what is youth? How do you master your youth?
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!
同学们,当我们从电视屏幕上看到我国选手夺得世界冠军,五星红旗冉冉升起在运动场上的时候;当从广播中听到我国的运载火箭、通信卫星飞上蓝天,奔向宇宙的时候;当从报纸上了解到社拦扒会主义建设突飞猛进、改革开放成就巨大的时候,我们怎能不热血沸腾,心潮澎湃,又怎能不从心底感到作为一个中国人有多么骄傲!
每位学生心中都有一颗爱国之心,那么我要问大家一个问题,我们应该怎样去爱国?诚然,作为新时期建设的主力军,我们应该用勤劳的双手让祖国繁荣昌盛,我们应该用坚强的臂膀给祖国安定祥和的环境,要知道,整整八十年,五四青年安家定国的愿望还没能完全实现,完成祖国的和平统一是我们这一代青年无可推卸的责任。其实怎样去爱国没有一个完美的答案,这也是永远无法用语言能够概括出的答案,因为我们每个人的答案都不会相同,都要用一生的时间去填写自己的一页。
今天我要说,如果祖国需要,我愿到雪域高原,做千里冰川上的一朵雪莲;我愿到万里戈壁,做茫茫黄沙中的株绿杉;我愿到帕米尔高原上的红旗甫,让绿色在生命禁区里闪耀光芒。我也相信,只要祖国需要,在座的每一位都会义无反顾的献出自己最可宝贵的一切一切,这难道不正是伟大民族之魂的闪现吗?
少年兴则国兴,小年强则国强。我们要适应时代发展的要求,正确认链衡姿识祖国的历史和现实,增强爱国的情感和振兴祖国的责任感,树棚绝立民族自尊心与自信心;弘扬伟大的中华民族精神,高举爱国主义旗帜,锐意进取,自强不息,艰苦奋斗,顽强拼搏,真正把爱国之志变成报国之行。今天为振兴中华而勤奋学习,为创造祖国的辉煌未来贡献自己的力量吧!