A. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
Keep your face always toward the sunshine --and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 2
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
I like firsts. Good or bad, they’re always memorable. --Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. --Alice Walker (The Color Purple)Speaker 3
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. --Benjamin Franklin
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. --Arthur AsheSpeaker 4
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
“If you can't convince them, scare them.” --— the government
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. --Lewis CarrollSpeaker 5
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. --Babe Ruth
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
The function of freedom is to free someone else. --Toni MorrisonSpeaker 6
You may delay, but time will not. --Benjamin Franklin
“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” --— Isak Dinesen
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like. --Dwight D. EisenhowerSpeaker 7
You manage things; you lead people.
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. --Charles Bukowski
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. --Benjamin Franklin
Round 2
Speaker 1
That's a pie-crust promise. Easily made, easily broken --Mary Poppins
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” --— John Adams
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. --Albert EinsteinSpeaker 2
“Because taxation is backed up with the threat of force, it is theft, plain and simple.” --— Adam Kokesh
“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves.” --— John Taylor Gatto
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. --Albert EinsteinSpeaker 3
Hakuna Matata!
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” --— Mark Twain
You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first. --Fred RogersSpeaker 4
Difficult to see; always in motion is the future.
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." --— Henry Ford
Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 5
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. --Albert Camus
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” --— Voltaire
Winter is coming. --Game of ThronesSpeaker 6
God helps those who help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. --Anne Sweeney
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears. --Fred RogersSpeaker 7
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. --Bono
I'm thankful for every moment. --Al Green
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
Round 3
Speaker 1
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. --Alexander the Great
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. --Bill GatesSpeaker 2
All of us, at some time or other, need help. --Fred Rogers
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. --Michael Jordan
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 3
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? --Marie Antoinette
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. --Benjamin Franklin
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. --Alice WalkerSpeaker 4
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” --— Bill Watterson
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. --Arthur Ashe
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. --James Freeman ClarkeSpeaker 5
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. --Aeschylus
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. --Arnold Glasow
A great man is always willing to be little.Speaker 6
Fighting hate should be fun. It’s being a hater that sucks. --Loretta J. Ross
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. --Aldous Huxley
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. --Ken BlanchardSpeaker 7
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” --— Robert Frost
We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family --Coco
Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elim 1
Speaker 1
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
In every fairy tale, there is a kernel of truth. --Geralt of Rivia
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” --— Buddha, 583-463 B.C.Speaker 2
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten --Lilo & Stitch
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. --Benjamin Franklin
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom' out of your vocabulary.” --— Malcolm XSpeaker 3
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. --Abraham Lincoln
“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.” --— Banksy
“There's a Walter White in every person in the world." --— Bryan CranstonSpeaker 4
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. --Auguste Rodin
You are nothing. A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me. I am all the Sith. --Emperor Palpatine, The Rise of Skywalker
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. --Amy TanSpeaker 5
Today is a good day to try
If you don’t challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with. --Julia Hardy
I never look back, darling. It distracts me from the nowSpeaker 6
Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it. --Bernie Mac
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
The only limit is your imagination --Big Hero 6Speaker 7
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. --Albert Einstein
Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.