A. College Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. --Theodore Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 2
Strike me down in anger and I’ll always be with you. Just like your father. --Luke Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. --Barry Bonds
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. --Aeschylus
Speaker 3
There is no such thing as part freedom. --Nelson Mandela
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. --Warren Buffett
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. --Zsa Zsa Gabor
Speaker 4
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. --Steve Jobs
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma Gandhi
Governments never learn. Only people learn. --Milton Friedman
Speaker 5
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. --Albert Camus
All of us, at some time or other, need help. --Fred Rogers
I have no sense of humor about losing --Rafael Nadal
Speaker 6
“When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.” --— Thomas Sowell
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. --Catherine the Great
“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.” --— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Speaker 7
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. --Warren Buffett
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. --Aeschylus
“Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.” --— Ludwig von Mises
Round 2 - 3:00pm
Speaker 1
There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it --Brave
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. --Benjamin Franklin
So soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that 'freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,’ and they will define freedom out of existence. --Voltairine de Cleyre
Speaker 2
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. --Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. --Benjamin Franklin
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. --George Bernard Shaw
Speaker 3
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” --— George Bernard Shaw
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. --Zora Neale Hurston
Speaker 4
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
People only see what they are prepared to see. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaker 5
There are more love songs than anything else. --Frank Zappa
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. --Babe Ruth
"Intellectuals can [be] ready to explain the behaviours of the whole world, but not […] their own situation. As though they alone were beyond the pull of motives.” --— Norman Geras
Speaker 6
Wages are not paid for labor expended, but for the achievements of labor, which differ widely in quality and quantity. --Ludwig von Mises
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.” --— Alan Coren
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. --Herbert Swope
Speaker 7
We had each other. That’s how we won. --Lando Calrissian, The Rise of Skywalker
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. --Nelson Mandela
“If you aren't willing to be mocked, you’ll never be able to lead.” --— Naval Ravikant
Round 3 - 4:15pm
Speaker 1
"Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” --— James Russell Lowell
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? --Fred Rogers
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be. --Sean Higgins
Speaker 2
“There's a Walter White in every person in the world." --— Bryan Cranston
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. --Zig Ziglar
Speaker 3
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. --Andrew Carnegie
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. --Max Lucado
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. --Galileo Galilei
Speaker 4
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. --Jackie Kennedy
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. --Michelle Obama
Everybody’s got problems. The world is full of problems --The Sword in the Stone
Speaker 5
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. --Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. --Ovid
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. --Bruce Lee
Speaker 6
In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. --Bryant McGill
Fatigue is the best pillow. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 7
I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad --The Little Mermaid
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. --Benjamin Franklin
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” --— Friedrich Hayek