A. College Speech (collapsed) Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. - Aldous Huxley

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

    3.  Tell the children the truth. - Bob Marley

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Charles Swindoll

    2.  “American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” - — Frank Zappa

    3.  You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  I remember daddy told me 'Fairytales can come true'. But you've got to make them happen, it all depends on you

    2.  Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.

    3.  These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone, - Milan Kundera

    2.  “Better that many guilty persons escape unpunished than one innocent person should be punished.” - — John Adams

    3.  Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  “I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” - — Paul Smith

    3.  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  The man of science is a poor philosopher. - Albert Einstein

    3.  “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.” - — Ron Paul

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. - Michelle Obama

    2.  The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin

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

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  Because it’s not worth winning if you can’t win big

    2.  Try and fail, but don’t fail to try. - John Quincy Adams

    3.  I'm not a hero. I'm a high-functioning alcoholic with a bad attitude. - Geralt of Rivia

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  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.

    2.  Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee

    3.  Applause waits on success. - Benjamin Franklin

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  I drink and I know things. - Tyrion Lannister

    2.  “Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.” - — Anonymous

    3.  I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. - Lucille Ball

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

    2.  Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. - Dolores Huerta

    3.  He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius

    2.  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

    3.  You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

    2.  Being dead is like being stupid: it's only painful for others.

    3.  All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

    2.  But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best. - Barry Bonds

    3.  “We make it look easy on the court… because we practice until we cannot get it wrong anymore.

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

    2.  “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.” - — Thomas Aquinas

    3.  It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  This is the way. - Mando, The Mandalorian

    2.  Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

    3.  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.

    2.  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

    3.  No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it - Mulan

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

    2.  I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley

    3.  Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

    2.  I like firsts. Good or bad, they’re always memorable. - Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian

    3.  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good. - Fred Rogers

    2.  “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” - — Halon’s Razor

    3.  It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

    2.  Life is a harsh sentence to lay down for yourself

    3.  Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end. But in my heart's a memory, and there you'll always be

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Never give up. Keep trying and pushing and struggling, even if you don't know what your goal is or why you would want to achieve it. - Jack Handey

    2.  Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

    3.  Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  “The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.” - — James Donald

    2.  A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. - Tywin Lannister

    3.  Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

    2.  All it takes is faith and trust

    3.  A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. - Les Brown

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  In a dark place we find ourselves and a little more knowledge lights our way.

    2.  Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    3.  When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” - — Milton Friedman

    2.  “Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.” - — Abraham Lincoln

    3.  Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

    2.  Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. - Aldous Huxley

    3.  We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. - John Adams

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  “Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes, and his weaknesses.” - — Democritus

    2.  Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

    3.  Hakuna Matata!

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

    2.  There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. - George Bernard Shaw

    3.  He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. - Aristotle

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. - -Samuel Johnson

    2.  “We are living in an age that glorifies the single study.

    3.  The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. - Albert Einstein

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  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

    3.  It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein

    2.  Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - Booker T. Washington

    3.  Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free? - Beauty and the Beast

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

    2.  It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

    3.  Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. - Barry Bonds

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap, the job's a game - Mary Poppins

    2.  Humor is healing. - Brad Garrett

    3.  Change is such hard work. - Billy Crystal

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  To be great is to be misunderstood.

    2.  There's always a chance, Doctor, as long as one can think

    3.  Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. - Maslow

    3.  There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it - Henry David Thoreau

    2.  You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand

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

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand

    2.  It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - Albus Dumbledore

    3.  Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. - Fred Rogers

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost. - EW Hornung

    2.  A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu

    3.  “When we die, all our secrets are loosed [...] all that’s left of us is stories.” - — Tim Kreider

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - — Ephesians 6:12

    2.  “Cinema lies, sport doesn’t.” - — Jean-Luc Goddard.

    3.  “As government grows, liberty dies.

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  I am one with the Force and the Force is with me. - Chirrut, Rogue One

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

    3.  “Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.” - — Tim Kreider

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

    2.  I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

    3.  The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. - Andrew Johnson

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  Never give an order that can't be obeyed. - General Douglas MacArthur

    2.  A friendly piece of advice; assume that I know everything. - Moff Gideon, The Mandalorian

    3.  “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” - — Thomas Paine

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk

    2.  “The state is a soulless machine. It can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” - — Mahatma Gandhi

    3.  Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle

    2.  It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know

    3.  It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - Albus Dumbledore

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. - George Washington

    2.  How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Fran

    3.  The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. - Andrew Carnegie

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

    2.  Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

    3.  Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life. - Fred Rogers

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  All of us, at some time or other, need help. - Fred Rogers

    2.  “The problem with conquering the world is that the world is gonna want its revenge.” - — Robert Lusetich

    3.  Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - Benjamin Disraeli

    2.  I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. - Rosa Parks

    3.  “Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.” - — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

    3.  Activism has been very productive in our society. - Anthony Fauci