如果你要参加演讲比赛，需要准备的东西不少。除了要有表现力之外，还要有优秀的，震撼人心或是感人肺腑的演讲稿。如果这方面你的能力还有所欠缺，倒不如去看看，哪些在英语演讲比赛获奖的人的演讲稿，他们会给你带来不小的启示。

The Call of the Warmth

Honourable judges, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Humanism, by which I mean the will to give people love and care, is the most joyful and meaningful part of being human. From the old days to technologically advanced world, humanism is always telling ordinary but moving stories.

Let me tell you what touched my heart this winter break, one morning when I visited my grandmother in the hospital. Walking down the cold, tiled corridor, I noticed an old man, with his granddaughter – maybe 10 years old – sitting by his side. I was lured there by her voice – light and playful – and after I'd seen them together, I could barely take my eyes away. Delicately draped over this old man's beeping cardiograph was a silk sheet with an ancient, cheerful Chinese poem beautifully written on it – and now, this little girl's entrancing voice lovingly brought these words to life. I stood there transfixed; no longer did I see the family members swimming in nervousness; no longer did I feel the hospital's tense cloud of anxiety; no longer did I hear mortality's soft whispers in the corridors; instead, I saw a startling marriage of juxtaposing images and emotions. I was beholding, I realized, a bewilderingly simple yet overwhelmingly powerful metaphor – one that shows that no matter how cold an environment technology can conjure, humanity is always there. In the forefront or the fringes, it is always there.

For here it was, illustrated vividly before me – the coldness of technology embodied in the hospital walls, while the soulful words of the little girl danced around them in defiance.

This experience opened my eyes in many ways – ever since, I have been acutely aware of, and wonderfully conscious of, the warm heart of humanity surrounding us, whether we choose to recognise it or not. As one psychological theory states, "We see what we want to see". After my experience that day at the hospital, I have chosen to recognize, day by day, the warmth of humanism everywhere I can.

I refuse to accept the negative, narrow-minded, caustic opinions that technology is eroding our souls. I say to them, let the machines continue their monotonous cacophony, for just one smiling face is infinitely more valuable than a thousand churners of binary code; let technological progress develop and develop until it poetically devours itself, because one heartfelt "hello" to a fellow traveller can speak libraries of warmth; let the powermongers and oil barons puff their last cigars, because the love and care, and warmth of humanism will always shine like beacon, reaching out to each and every heart on this small planet.

Although I'll probably never see that little girl or her grandfather again, I'll never forget seeing them there in the hospital that day – and if I did, I'd thank them for showing me how vivid yet subtle, how firm yet fragile, and how invisible yet omnipresent the human spirit is in our world today. Thank you.

My Definition of Success

Ladies and gentlemen, I can say I'm no less nervous than my fellow and he was on the first time coming before this house. I can say ladies and gentlemen, that the problem we are facing before us, the problem that I have to deal with today, is how to define success.

It is often too easy, it is often too simplistic to define success as something external, something objective, something dealing with money, fame or reputation. But what I believe success is that it is not external. It comes from within. It is internal. I believe success is that you have to have your own ideals, and that you have faith in those ideals, even in the face of extreme adversity. And that is my definition of success.

I also believe that success is not discriminatory. Success does not attach to a mere particular class of individuals. I believe that each and every individual, regardless of race, gender, class or even economic background, has an equal right to success, because each person has the right to develop his own ideals and to pursue those ideals.

A good example of this is the composer Beethoven, a man who all of us know has created great symphonies. This man was deaf. This man was unable to hear his own majestic pieces of work. And yet, he held to his ideal of creation of music to the very end. Then what exactly does the definition of success mean to me? To answer this question, to exemplify it, I pose a question to this house. I pose a question what brings us here together today, ladies and gentlemen, students and educators as you like. And the answer that I have found is the love for the spoken word.

Love for the spoken word means how it is to express, how it is to listen, how it is to understand. Because what happens when you have a pause, what happens when you have a rhetoric speech all differs on the impact and communication that you have on your audience. But the meaning of the spoken word applies ever more strongly to those who are unable to speak, or are unwilling to speak. Because all the beautiful thoughts and emotions encapsulated in that person will inevitably be lost, if that person is not able to speak.

I once went to Australia in 1998,and I saw two pictures drawn by three-year-old children. One was drawn by a normal child, one was drawn by what is known as an autistic child, a child which is exclusive, which is unable to express himself verbally to other people. And you could see the difference between the pictures. One was a picture of a horse very simple and straightforward. One was a picture of a horse a gain, but you could see the life, you could see the spirit, and you could see the detail behind that picture.

So the point I want to make here is that these people do have emotion they understand a lot, but it is very very fatal that they are not able to express themselves. And my definition of success is to share with them the beauty of the spoken word. My definition of success is to teach and be able to change these people's lives, because I have had the opportunity of encountering these people in my times either at school or during my summer jobs. I have had the time and opportunity to change these people. I have had the time to see exactly what exactly they go d1rough and to understand that point.

My ideal here is to share the beauty of the spoken word to these people. It is fright fatal that these people are not given the opportunity to be understood by the world. I say it because these people are often neglected by the public. I say it because people often think they are awkward and different. But I say we cannot forgive these acts because we must have a proactive approach to teach these people.

I say, ladies and gentlemen, that is important to keep your ideals. I say we should not have a premature abortion of ideals. It is easy to stray; it is easy to be distracted. What I say is let your ideals live on. Let the child of your ideals live on, because what I want to leave you with is living you life without an ideal means that your life is not worth living at all. Thank you.

这两篇演讲稿是获奖的作品，虽然说参加演讲比赛需要有打动人心的表现力，但如果你的演讲内容空洞乏味也吸引不了观众和评委。尽量拿出精彩的内容，这样的作品加上优质的表现，一定让你在英语演讲比赛中大放异彩。