Speaker 1

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 1

1. I always just want to move along to the next step. - Ben Silbermann

2. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela

3. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. -A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Speaker 2

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 2

1. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. -Napoleon Bonaparte

2. There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus

3. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi

Speaker 3

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 3

1. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -Niccolo Machiavelli

2. Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. -Henry James

3. Learning never exhausts the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci

Speaker 4

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 4

1. The only journey is the one within. -Rainer Maria Rilke

2. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. -Will Rogers

3. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop

Speaker 5

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 5

1. It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. -George Washington

2. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. -Napoleon Hill

3. Independence is happiness. -Susan B. Anthony

Speaker 6

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 6

1. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -Sun Tzu

2. Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. -Walt Whitman

3. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. -Sigmund Freud

Speaker 7

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 1 - Speaker 7

1. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. -Lao Tzu

3. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Speaker 1

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 1

1. "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." -Toni Morrison (Beloved)

2. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." -Louisa M. Alcott (Little Women)

3. "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)

Speaker 2

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 2

1. "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

2. "There is always something left to love." -Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

3. "What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?" -Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give)

Speaker 3

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 3

1. "They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it." -Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) 

2. "Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for." -Joseph Heller (Catch 22)

3. "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am." -Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

Speaker 4

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 4

1. "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." -Alice Walker (The Color Purple)

2. "Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass." -Louise Erdrich (The Round House)

3. "When I discover who I am, I'll be free." -Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)

Speaker 5

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 5

1. "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." -Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

2. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)

3. "Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" -Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)

Speaker 6

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 6

1. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." -Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)

2. "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." -Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

3. "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." -John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)

Speaker 7

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 2 - Speaker 7

1. "That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." -Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

2. "We accept the love we think we deserve." -Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower)

3. "Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkein (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Speaker 1

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 1

1. "Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." - Ferdinand Foch

3. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

Speaker 2

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 2

1. "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X

2. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

3. "The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril." - Xenophon

Speaker 3

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 3

1. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

2. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

3. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell

Speaker 4

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 4

1. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

2. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson

3. "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

Speaker 5

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 5

1. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

3. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb

Speaker 6

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 6

1. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar

2. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

3. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." - Stephen Covey

Speaker 7

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - Round 3 - Speaker 7

1. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

2. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison

3. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

Speaker 1

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 1

1. "Friends don't lie." - Stranger Things

2. "The only way to stop feeling afraid of something is to face it." - Ozark

3. "Oh, my God, they killed Kenny!" - South Park

Speaker 2

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 2

1. "I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested." - The Big Bang Theory

2. "Winter is coming." - Game of Thrones

3. "I have approximate knowledge of many things." - Adventure Time

Speaker 3

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 3

1. "You come at the king, you best not miss." - The Wire

2. "I am the one who knocks." - Breaking Bad

3. "I'm not a regular mom. I'm a cool mom." - Mean Girls

Speaker 4

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 4

1. "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - Pride and Prejudice

2. "It's not about money. It's about sending a message." - The Dark Knight

3. "I am the danger." - Breaking Bad

Speaker 5

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 5

1. "If you're gonna be the death of me, that's how I wanna go." - Bridgerton

2. "Sometimes I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster, and I'm at the top of the world." - BoJack Horseman

3. "It's not easy being green." - Sesame Street

Speaker 6

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 6

1. All men must serve." - Game of Thrones

2. "Hakuna Matata!" - The Lion King

3. "I am the captain now." - Captain Phillips

Speaker 7

2023 NOF College Champs - Impromptu - FINALS - Speaker 7

1. "You know nothing, Jon Snow." - Game of Thrones

2. "I don't care about the money. I care about the game." - Narcos

3. "The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead." - BoJack Horseman