XX奥普拉在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿

本文部分内容来自网络整理，本司不为其真实性负责，如有异议或侵权请及时联系，本司将立即删除！== 本文为word格式，下载后可方便编辑和修改！ ==奥普拉哈弗毕业典礼发言稿奥普拉·温弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)，1954年1月29日出生于密西西比州科修斯科，美国演员，制片，主持人，是当今世界上最具影响力的妇女之一，下面是她在哈弗大学毕业典礼上的发言稿，一起来感受一下她的魅力吧!奥普拉哈佛大学毕业典礼中英文演讲稿Oh my goodness! I’m at Harvard! Wow! To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl [Muller] that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of ’88, your hundred fifteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 201X! Hello!我的天啊!我在哈...佛!真的!尊敬的Faust校长、和我一起获得荣誉学位的各位，Carl(注：Carl Muller哈佛校友会主席)，真是太棒了，谢谢你们!还有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教职工们，特别感谢我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士(注：美国知名黑人教授)!感谢所有的哈佛校友，特别要感谢88届的毕业生，你们为哈佛捐出一亿一千五百万美元(注：哈佛历史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款)。

奥普拉演讲译文给毕业生的三个经验奥普拉在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲（1954）欧普拉·温弗里[1] 这个世界将会教会你们很多。

我认为这个世界，这个地球，就像一个学校,而我们的人生就像教室。

有时这些课程会是弯路和障碍。

有时会充满危机。

我所学的应付这一切的秘密就是去勇于面对这些来自于这座最宏大的大学的课程，即来自于宇宙本身的课程。

[2] 今天我想和大家分享我人生的三个经验，这三个经验对我的人生产生了很大影响，它们必然和感情，失败和追求幸福相关。

感觉就像人生的导航系统[3] 当我离开大学一年后，在巴尔的摩我得到了一个共同主持6点新闻的机会。

当时我正靠近的媒体界的最大目标就是获得更大的市场，而巴尔的摩是一个比纳什维尔大得多的市场，因此在22岁时得到这个机会对我来说非常重要。

它那时对我来说它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。

[4] 我非常自豪，因为我终于有机会去效法芭芭拉·沃尔特斯。

而她正是我从业以来一直效法的对象。

那时我22岁，每年挣22,000美元。

我遇到了在电视台做实习生的盖丽，我最好的朋友。

我们成为好朋友后，曾说：“我的天啊，真难以置信。

你在22岁时挣每年能挣22,000美元。

想象一下吧，当你40岁时你每年就会挣40,000美元”[5] 当我真的40岁时，我很高兴这并没有成真。

[6] 这就是我，22岁时每年挣22,000美元，然而，这种感觉并不好。

正如亨尼斯校长所说，先是他们试图让我改名字。

那时导演对我说：“没人会记住奥普拉这个名字。

因此我们想让你改名字。

我们已经为你想了一个大家都会记住和喜欢的名字—苏茜。

”[7] 苏茜，一个很友善的名字。

你不会厌恶苏茜。

记住苏茜吧。

但是我的名字不是苏茜。

你们可以看到，自小我就不怎么喜欢我的名字。

因为当你在午餐箱和号牌处寻找你的名字时，你永远也不会找到奥普拉。

[8] 我从小就不怎么喜欢我的名字，但是当我被告知去改名字时，我想，好吧，那是我的名字，但是苏茜真的适合我吗？因此我想，它并不适合我。

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness! im athaaaaaarvard! thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard universitygraduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way. winfrey also received anhonorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录谈失败的好处there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in anotherdirection.世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。

learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. 要从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好地做自己。

2. on her own biggest personal failure.谈自身最大的失败我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天。

然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。

谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性beyonce in all her beyonce-ness ... they all want to know: was that okay? didyou hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you?我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。

奥普拉哈弗毕业典礼发言稿「中英文版」奥普拉哈弗毕业典礼发言稿「中英文版」奥普拉·温弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)，1954年1月29日出生于密西西比州科修斯科，美国演员，制片，主持人，是当今世界上最具影响力的妇女之一，下面是她在哈弗大学毕业典礼上的发言稿，一起来感受一下她的魅力吧!奥普拉哈佛大学毕业典礼中英文演讲稿Oh my goodness! I’m at Harvard! Wow! To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl [Muller] that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni, with a speci al bow to the Class of ’88, your hundred fifteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013! Hello!我的天啊!我在哈...佛!真的!尊敬的Faust校长、和我一起获得荣誉学位的各位，Carl(注：Carl Muller哈佛校友会主席)，真是太棒了，谢谢你们!还有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教职工们，特别感谢我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士(注：美国知名黑人教授)!感谢所有的哈佛校友，特别要感谢88届的毕业生，你们为哈佛捐出一亿一千五百万美元(注：哈佛历史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款)。

所有2013届的各位毕业生们!大家好!I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I’m honored doesn’t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, Iconsider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. I’m going to address m y remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.感谢你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇章开始的纽带。

奥普拉·温佛瑞哈佛大学2013年毕业典礼演讲Oh my goodness!哦我的天哪!I'm at Harvard!我终于来到哈佛了!Wow!哇哦!To president Faust, my fellow honorands,福斯特校长以及各位荣誉学位获得者Carl, that was so beautiful. Thank you so much.卡尔这一切是如此美好非常感谢你们and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson,还有詹姆斯·罗森伯格斯蒂芬妮·威尔逊Harvard faculty,以及哈佛大学教职员工with a special bow to my friend, Doctor Henry Louis Gates.特别要向我的朋友亨利·路易斯·盖茨博士致敬All of you alumni, with a special bow to the class of '88,所有的毕业生们特别要恭喜88届的同学们your 115 million dollars.你们的一亿一千五百万美元到手了哦And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013! Hello!还有你们2013届毕业生! 你们好!I thank you for allowing me to be a part感谢你们让我有机会of your conclusion of this chapter of your lives与你们共度人生这一华丽篇章的谢幕时刻and the commencement of your next chapter并开启新的篇章to say that I'm honored doesn't even begin仅仅用荣幸一词无法表达出to quantify the depth of gratitude that really companies我对同时授予我的an honorary doctorate from Harvard.哈佛大学荣誉博士学位的感激之情And not too many little girls from rural Mississippi能够荣登剑桥顶级学府的have made it all the way here to Cambridge,密西西比州乡下女孩可谓屈指可数and I can tell you that I consider today说实话今天早上as I sat on the stage this morning当我坐在台上的时候getting teary for you all, and getting teary for myself.为你们也为我自己喜极而泣I consider today a defining milestone我认为今天是一段漫长美好的旅途中的in a very long and an bless journey.一个标志性里程碑My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration今天我唯一的希望就是自己可以成为灵感的源泉I'm going to address my remarks to anybody,我要对那些感到自卑与失落的人who's ever felt inferior or felt disadvantage, felt screwed by life,以及那些感觉生活不顺的人发表一下我的看法this is a speech for the quad.这些话只在这里说哦Actually I was so honored.我确实深感荣幸I wanted to do something really special for you.我想为你们做一些特别的事情I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats我也很想在你们的座位下面放点礼物and there would be free, a free... master and doctor degrees赠送给你们一些硕士与博士学位but I see, I see you got that covered, already.但看来你们已经有了I will be honest with you,说实话and I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks.在过去的几周内我感到压力非常大to come up with something that I could share with you不知该与你们分享哪些that you hadn't heard before,你们闻所未闻的内容才好because after all, you all went to Harvard. I did not.毕竟你们都进了哈佛深造而我却没有but then I realized that you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard但后来我意识到并不一定要来哈佛to have the driven obsessive type A personality才能塑造出A型强迫症人格的But it helps.但来这还是有用的and Well, I may not have graduated from here,虽然我没从这里毕业I admit that my personality is about this Harvard as they come.我得承认我的个性与哈佛学子的不谋而合You know, my television career began unexpectedly.其实我的电视生涯是在不经意中开始的as you've heard this morning,各位在今天早上已经听说了I was in a Miss Fire Prevention Contest.我参加了防火小姐比赛That was when I was sixteen years old, in Nashville, Tennessee,那还是我16岁的时候当时在田纳西州的纳什维尔and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win,要想赢得比赛就得将头发染红up until the year that I entered.直到我参赛的那年都是如此So they were redoing the "question-and-answer" period,他们沿用了问答的环节because I knew I wasn't going to win in this swimsuit competition.因为我知道我赢不了泳装比赛So, doing the question-and-answer period, the question came:在问答环节中问题是这样的Why, young lady? What would you like to be when you will grow up?小姐长大以后你希望做什么?"And by the time they've got to me all the good answers were gone.轮到我的时候所有的好答案都被别人用光了So, I had seen Barbara Walters on the Today Show that morning.那天早上我看过了芭芭拉·沃尔特斯的今日秀So I answered: "I would like to be a journalist.于是我就回答说我想成为一名新闻工作者I would like to tell other people stories我想给人们讲述故事in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world."从而影响人们的生活改变整个世界"And as those words were coming out of my mouth,当那些话从我嘴里说出来的时候I went: "Whoa! this is pretty good!"我感觉"哇! 这职业蛮不错的嘛!"I would like to be a journalist. I want to make a difference我要成为一名新闻工作者我要改变世界Well, I was on television by the time I was 19 years old.于是我在19岁那年上了电视and in 1984, I launched my own television show在1984年我推出了自己的电视栏目with a relentless determination to succeed.而这靠的是自己追求成功的坚定决心At first, I was nervous about the competition,起初我害怕与人竞争and then I became my own competition.后来我的竞争对手变成了自己raising the bar every year,每年都为自己设定更高的目标pushing pushing pushing myself as hard as I knew,逼迫自己竭尽所能sound familiar to anybody here.这些是众所周知的了Eventually, we did make it to the top,最终我们终于攀上了巅峰and we stayed there for 25 years.并且保持了25年之久The Oprah Winfrey show奥普拉·温弗瑞的栏目was number one in our time slot for twenty one years.21年来都保持同时段收视冠军的位置And I have to tell you,我得承认I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.这样的成功让我感觉非常好But a few years ago, I decided,但在若干年前我做出了决定as you will, at some point,各位将来也会和我一样that it was time to recalculate,会在某一时刻认为自己要重新开始find new territory, break new ground.寻找新版图开辟新天地So ended the show,于是我停掉了栏目and launched OWN,推出了OWNthe Oprah Winfrey Network.也就是"奥普拉·温弗瑞有线电视网"Initials just worked out for me.我很喜欢缩写词So, one year later after launching on,在推出一年之后nearly every media outlet had proclaimed几乎所有的媒体都宣布that my new venture with a flop,我的新事业失败了not just a flop, but the big bold flop, they call it.不仅是失败用他们的话说是"一败涂地"I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today我至今依然记得那天当我翻开《今日美国》时and read the headline "Oprah - Not Quite Standing On Her 'OWN'".一个大标题映入眼帘"奥普拉-自难成事"I mean, really, USA Today, that's the nice newspaper.我就纳闷了《今日美国》这样的好报纸居然也这样It really was, this time last year,的确去年的这个时侯the worst period in my professional life.是我职业生涯的低谷I was stressed, and I was frustrated.压力感与挫败感油然而生And quite frankly, I was... actually, I was embarrassed.说实话当时感觉身陷窘境it was right around that time, the President Faust called.就在那个节骨眼上福斯特校长给我打电话and asked me to speak here.邀请我来这里做演讲And I thought: "You want me to speak to Harvard graduates?当时我想"您让我来给哈佛毕业生们做演讲?What I... What can I possibly say to Harvard graduates,我能对他们说些什么呢some of the most successful graduates in the world,他们可是世界上最前途无量的一群人啊in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding?而且恰逢我事业失利的时候？So I got off the phone with President Faust,于是我挂断了福斯特校长的电话and I went to the shower.然后去洗了个澡It was either that or a bag of Oreos.要么淋浴要么就去吃一袋奥利奥饼干So I chose a shower.于是我选择去冲个澡and I was in the shower along time.在我淋浴的时候And as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me,一首古老的赞美诗闪过脑海you may not know it. It's "By and By... when the morning comes".你们可能没听过这个"耐心等待曙光终将到来"And I started thinking about when the morning might come.我开始思考自己的曙光何时到来Because when the time I thought I was stuck in a hole因为当我感到身陷困境时and the words came to me:想起了这些诗词Trouble. trouble don't last always from that hymn.困难困难终会过去这也是出自那首赞美诗This too shall pass.它也终会过去And I thought, as I got out of that shower,从浴室出来以后我开始思索I, I'm going to turn this thing around,我要扭转这种局面and I would be better for it.我会变得更好And when I do, I'm going to go to Harvard,一旦我做到了我会去哈佛大学I'm going to speak the truth of it.说出心里话So I'm here today to tell you:所以今天我要跟各位说I have turned that network around!我已让电视网重获新生!And it was all because I wanted to do it而来这里为你们做演讲by the time I got to speak to you or so.就是我唯一的动力Thank you so much!非常感谢你们!You don't know what motivation you are for me. Thank you!你们不知道这给了我多大的动力谢谢了!I'm even prouder to share a fundamental truth同时我要更自豪地分享一件事that you might not have learned, even as graduate of Harvard,尽管你们是哈佛毕业生可能也不知道这个unless you studied the ancient Greek role with professor Nagy,除非你攻读的是纳吉教授的古希腊角色professor Nagy, as we were coming in this morning said:我们今天早上来的时候纳吉教授对我说:Please, Ms. Winfrey, walk decisively.温弗瑞女士请自信地走起来吧!I shall walk decisively.我的确要自信地走起来This is what I want to share.这就是我要分享的事情了It doesn't matter how far you might rise.无论你有多么成功At some point, you are bound to stumble.难免会遇到失意之时Because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar,因为如果你们像我们这样不断提升目标if you are constantly pushing yourself higher, higher,如果你们不断为自己设定更高的目标the Law of averages, not to mention the myth of Icarus,根据常规我指的不是伊卡洛斯神话哦predicts that you will at some point fall.你们会在某时失意And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this:届时我希望各位可以记住一点请记住:There is no such thing as failure.世上没有失败Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.失败只不过是命运试图将我们推向另一个方向罢了Now, when you down in a hole, it looks like failure.当你身处困境时这只是看似一种失败而已So, this past year, I had to spoon-feed those words to myself.在过去的一年中我时刻提醒自己牢记这一点And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes,当你深陷困境时在那个时刻到来之时it's really okay to feel bad for a little while.暂时的难过是正常的Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost.给自己一点时间去哀叹失去的一切But then here's the key:然后就是关键所在Learn from every mistake.从每次的失误中汲取经验教训Because every experience encounter, and particularly your mistakes,因为所有的经验尤其是你的失误are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.都会让你学到东西促使你找回自我And then figure out what is in the next right move.然后确定下一步该何去何从And the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional GPS命运的关键在于培育出一个内在的道德情感导航仪that can tell you which way to go.使其能够为你指明方向Because now and forevermore, when you Google yourself,因为从今以后当你用谷歌搜索自己的时候your search results will read: Harvard, 2013.搜索结果中会提到哈佛大学2013 and in a very competitive world, that really is a calling card,在这个充满竞争的世界那的确是一张抢眼的名片cause I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people,就我个人而言我曾招聘过很多人when I see Harvard,当我看到哈佛大学的字眼时I sit a little bit straighter and say,我总是会坐直一些然后说Where if he or she? Bring them in.他们在哪? 把他们统统带过来It's an impressive calling card正是这张抢眼的名片that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead.可以成就你们的未来之路Lawyer, senator,你们可能成为律师参议员CEO, scientist, physicist,首席执行官科学家物理学家winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes,诺贝尔奖及普利策奖得主or late night talk show host.乃至深夜谈话节目主持人But the challenge of life I found is to build a resume但我发现命运的挑战在于创建一份履历that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be,其中不仅应陈述你所期望的职位but it's a story about who you want to be.也应明确你要成就怎样的自我It's a resume that doesn't just tell a story这份履历不仅要陈述about what you want to accomplish, but why.你想成就一番怎样的事业也要明确动机A story that's not just a collection of titles and positions,不仅要陈述心中的头衔与职位but a story that is really about your purpose.也要说出做出这些目标的因由because when you inadvertently stumble,因为当你不慎绊倒and find yourself stuck in a hole,发现自己深陷困境之时that is the story that will get you out.这种动机可以让你从中摆脱What is your true calling? What is your dogma?你的原始动机是什么？你的信仰是什么？What is your purpose?你的意图是又什么？For me, that discovery came in 1994,我是在1994年认识到这一点的when I interviewed a little girl当时我采访了一位小女孩who had decided to collect pocket change,她决定积攒零钱in order to help other people in need.帮助其他有需要的人She raised a thousand dollars all by herself,她凭一己之力积攒了一千美元and I thought:当时我想Well, what that little nine-year old girl,一个九岁大的小女孩with a bucket and a big heart, could do that,仅凭一个存钱罐与雄心壮志就能做到这样and I wondered what I could do?那么我可以做些什么呢？So, I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection,于是我号召我的观众们捐出他们的零钱and in one month, just from pennies, and nickels and dimes,在一个月内仅仅是那些面值极小的零钱we raised more than three million dollars我们就募到了三百多万美元that we used to send one student我们用这笔钱将每个州的一位学子from every state in the United States to college.送入了大学的殿堂That was the beginning of the Angel Network.天使网络便从那时开始运作了And so, what I did was I simply ask our viewers,我所做的仅仅是号召我们的观众do what you can, wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life,尽己所能无论地域与地位giving your time, your talent, your money if you have it,如果可能请拿出你们的时间智慧与财力and they did,他们也的确鼎力相助extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.无论你在哪里请为他人送去自己的仁爱之心And, together, we built 55 schools in 12 different countries,与此同时我们在12个州成立了55所学校and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated修缮了300栋曾被飓风丽塔by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.与飓风卡特里娜摧毁的民宅So, the Angel Network, I've been on the air for a long time.天使网络的想法在我心中萦绕已久But it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal GPS.正是天使网络让我确定了心中的那个导航仪It helped me to decide that I wasn't just going to be on TV every day,它使我决定不再单一地从事电视事业but that the goal of my shows, my interviews,还要关注我的栏目目标我的采访my business, my philanthropy, all of it,我的业务我的慈善事业等等whatever ventures I might pursue无论我追求的是什么我都会明确would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming将我们团结在一起的信念终将and compelling than anything that separates me.远远胜过拆散我们的一切事物Because what has become clear to me, and I want you to know因为希望各位明白我所认清的道理it isn't always clear in the beginning.起初通常是不够明确的Because as I said, I've been on television since I was 19 years old.因为我曾说过我在19岁那年初登荧屏But around '94, I got really clear.但到了1994年我才明白这些道理So, don't expect the clarity to come all at once因此不要指望能即可明晰所有的事to know your purpose right away,不要指望能即刻认清自身的志向所在but what became clear to me was但当时我清楚地知道that I was here on earth to use television我在利用电视and not be used by it,而不是被电视所利用to use television利用电视媒体to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels.彰显我们更好的天使的超凡力量So, this Angel Network,因此对于天使网络而言it didn't just change the lives of those who were helped,它并不只会改变那些得到帮助的人but the lives of those who also did the helping.也会改变那些施予帮助的人It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we looked like,它提醒我们无论是谁外表怎样or what we may believe, it is both possible.心存何种信念都有可能实现目标And more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together更重要的是凭借共同的目的与共同的努力in common purpose and common effort.它将变得更为强大I saw something on the Bill Moyers show, recently,最近我在比尔莫耶斯访谈节目中看到的一些事情that so reminded me of this point.使我更加明确了这一点It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler.当时的访谈对象是大卫与法兰欣·威勒夫妇They lost their seven-year-old son, Ben, in the Sandy Hook tragedy.在桑迪岬惨案中他们失去了年仅七岁的儿子本And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks然而就在他们接受采访的同时has been voted down in congress at the time they were doing this interview.加强背景调查的枪支安全法遭到了国会的投票否决They talked about how they refused to be discouraged.他们说自己绝不会气馁Francine said this. She said:这是法兰欣说的她说"Our hearts are broken, but our spirits are not.""心可碎但态度不能变"I'm going to tell them what it's like我要让他们知道to find a conversation about change that is love.寻找转变的对话这才是爱And I'm going to do that without fighting them.我要努力去做到而不会与他们争斗And then her husband David added this:随后她的丈夫大卫补充道:You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone遇到与你意见不同的人who doesn't agree with you.你不该把他妖魔化甚至加以诽谤Because the minute you do that, your discussion is over,因为一旦这样做了对话也就随之终止and we cannot do that any longer.我们绝不会这样The problem is too enormous, there has to be some way问题依然非常显著一定有某种方法that this darkness can be banished with light.能够使光明驱走黑暗In our political system and in the media,在我们的政体与媒体中we often see the reflection of a country我们会经常会见到一个极化的that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.麻痹而又自私的国家缩影And yet, I know you know the truth.然而我知道你们是了解真相的We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism我们知道我们要好过华盛顿政府that is regurgitated throughout Washington,以及24小时循环播放的有线新闻中的and the 24-hour cable news cycle,犬儒主义与厌世主义not my channel by the way.还好不是我的频道We understand that the vast majority of people in this country我们深知这个国家的多数公民believe in stronger background checks,都支持更加强有力的背景调查机制because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment,因为他们意识到我们可以赞成第二修正案and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children.并且减少让我们饱受丧子之痛的暴力事件They don't have to be incompatible.二者并不矛盾And we understand that most Americans我们深知大多数美国人坚信believe in the clear path to citizenship能够给予居住在这个国家的1200万非法移民for the twelve million undocumented immigrants to reside in this country明确的公民身份because it's possible to both enforce our laws.因为完全可以在实施法案的同时And at the same time, embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty践行自由女神像前的铭言that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.收容那些世代蜷缩在边境线上的人们We can do both.二者可以兼得And we understand, I know you do,我们能理解我知道你们也能理解because you all went to Harvard,因为你们都是哈佛学子that people from both parties and no party believe无论是党派人士或无党派人士都认为that indigent mothers and families贫困的母亲与家庭should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads应当获得健康食物与栖身之所and a strong public education,以及良好的公共教育because here in the richest nation on earth,因为在这个全球最富饶的国度中we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.我们有能力满足对于安全与机遇的基本需要So, the question is:那么问题在于What are we going to do about it? Really.我们要如何行动起来? 说真的What are you going to do about it?各位要如何行动起来?Maybe you agree with these beliefs, maybe you don't,或许你赞同这些信念或许心存异议maybe you care about these issues,或许你关注这些问题or maybe there are other challenges亦或还有其它方面的挑战that you, class of 2013 year, are passionate about,是你们这些2013年度毕业生所热衷的maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government,或许你希望通过从政来改变这一切maybe you want to launch your own television show,或许你希望推出自己的电视栏目or maybe you simply want to collect some change.或许只是想要攒些零钱Your parents would appreciate that about, now.你们的父母此时会很欣赏这种做法The point is,关键在于your generation is charged with this task of breaking through你们这一代人肩负着what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.打破国家目前改革维艰的局面each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity每位来这所知名学府学习的同学of attending this prestigious school.都被赐予了极大的机遇You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors,现在你们有机会让自己及周围的人们生活得更好and also the life of our country.包括我们的所有同胞们When you do that, let me tell you what I know for sure:届时我会确信地告诉你That's when you story gets really good.那时你的人生才会变得真正精彩起来Maya Angelou always says:玛雅·安吉洛经常说When you learn, teach. When you get, give."学而知授得而知施"That, my friends, is what gives you a story, purpose and meaning.朋友们它会为你树立人生的目标与意义So you all have the power in your own way因此你们每个人都有能力to develop your own Angel Network.打造自己的天使网络项目And in doing so, your class will be armed届时各位同学在影响力with more tools of influence and empowerment以及自主力方面都会如虎添翼than any other generation in history.胜于以往的任何一代人I did it in an analog world.我就是在与此类似的环境中达到目标的I was blessed with a platform我很幸运地建立了一个平台that at its height reached nearly 20 million viewers a day.其单日最高点击量达两千万人次Now, here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and Youtube and Tumbler,而今在Twitter Facebook Youtube与Tumbler盛行的时代you can reach billions in just seconds.你们瞬间即可与数以亿计的人实现互通You are the generation that rejected predictions你们这一代人about your detachment and your disengagement,绝不会让彼此间变得天涯陌路by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.这从2008年的入学申请人数便可看出And with the pundits said, they said,权威人士们曾说过they talked about you, they said, you'd be too disappointed.他们曾谈论过你们说你们会失望透顶You'd be too dejected也会心灰意冷to repeat that same kind of turnout in the 2012 election,在2012年的选拔中不会再有那么多人申请and you prove them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.而你们用更大的规模的申请人数推翻了他们的预测That's who you are.这就是你们自己This generation, you generation, I know,我知道你们这一代人has developed a finely honed radar for B.S.为商业学校模式的发展做出了贡献Can you say B.S. at Harvard?可以在哈佛提起"商业学校"的字眼吗?The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness那些天花乱坠的虚假与龌龊that saturate so much of our national debate.饱受了太多的国民非议I know you all understand better that most我知道你们对此再清楚不过that real progress requires authentic,真正的进步需要真实的方式an authentic way of being honesty and, above all, empathy.真诚对待将心比心I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned25年来我领悟出一条最为关键的哲理in 25 years, talking every single day to people,每天我都会对身边的人说was that there is a common denominator in our human experience.那就是我们的人生阅历中都有一个公分母Most of us, I tell you, we don't want to be divided.可以说多数的人都不想成为分母What we want,我们需要的the common denominator that I found in every single interview,就是我在每次访谈中发现的那个公分母is we want to be validated.那就是我们想被认可We want to be understood.我们想得到他人的理解I've done over 35,000 interviews in my career.在我的职业生涯中曾经做过35000次访谈and as soon as that camera shuts off,每当摄影机关掉的时候everyone always turns to be所有的受访者and inevitably in their own way ask this question:必然会用自己的方式问出这样一个问题:Was that okay?我表现得还可以吧?I heard it from President Bush.布什总统这样说过I heard it from President Obama.奥巴马总统也曾这样说过I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.包括英雄人物和家庭主妇I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.受害者与罪犯I even heard it from Beyoncéin all of her Beyoncé-ness!甚至碧昂斯的表演也需要得到这样的认可She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says:访谈结束后她把麦克风交给我对我说:Was that okay?我表现得还可以吧?Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument你们的亲友敌人陌生人在每次争论时in every encounter, every exchange,在每次的相遇与交流时I will tell you, they all want to know one thing:他们都想知道的是Was that okay?我表现得还可以吧?Did you hear me? Do you see me?你是否在听我说话? 是否在关注我?Did what I say mean anything to you?我的话对你而言是否有意义?and even though this is a college where Facebook was born,尽管Facebook在这里诞生my hope is that you would try to go out我希望各位要去尝试和那些and have more face-to-face conversations with people与你持不同意见的人you may disagree with.进行更多的面对面交流That you all have the courage to look them in the eye,你们要有勇气注视着他们的眼睛and hear their point of view,倾听他们的见解and help make sure the speed and distance and anonymity of our world确保我们世界的速度感距离感以及无名感doesn't cause us to lose use our ability to stand in somebody else's shoes,不会让我们失去站在他人角度思考问题的能力and recognize all that we share as a people.以及认清我们作为人类的共同点this is imperative for you, as an individual,各位作为社会的一员and for our success as a nation.这种认知对于你自己和国家的兴盛都是必要的There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.必然会有方法使光明驱走黑暗Says the man whose little boy was massacred这出自一位儿子惨遭杀害的父亲之口on just in an ordinary Friday in December.他在十二月一个平常的周五失去了自己的孩子So whether you call it, soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence,称之为灵魂或志气也好更高的自我或是智慧也罢there is, I know this, there's a light inside each of you, all of us,我深知每个人的内心都有一盏明灯that illuminates your very human beingness, if you let it.只要你想它就会将你的。

哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲稿――人生唯一目标是做自己奥普拉·温弗瑞：美国著名脱口秀主持人、媒体企业家。

面对母校，我们要献上一颗颗感恩的心。

感谢母校领导和老师四年来对我们的关心和教育，是你们的谆谆教诲，让我们的大学四年没有虚度;是你们的辛劳，让我们拥有今天的成绩;你们的鼓励，将让我们在社会的风浪中勇敢前行。

请母校放心，我们决不辜负您的培养，我们会时刻铭记您的教诲，以优秀的业绩彰显浙江林学院的风采。

I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I’m honored doesn’t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of someinspiration. I’m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.奥普拉在哈佛大学XX届毕业典礼的演讲——人生唯一目标是做自己亲爱的老师，是您的辛劳付出，是您的无私奉献换来了我们的收获与成长;您知识渊博，并毫无保留地传授给我们;您体贴入微，使我们的生活充满了家的温暖;您独特的人格魅力更是令我们折服;您的磨练与指导，在我们成长的道路上留下深深的印迹。

失败只是另寻他路——奥普拉·温弗瑞在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲当你们跌倒时，我要你们记住：不存在失败这一说。

失败只是生活试图让我们走另一条路而已。

当你们陷入困境时，只不过看起来像是失败。

我感到非常荣幸，我想要为你们做点真正特别的事情。

我想在你们的座位底下放上一堆免费的硕士和博士学位，不过你们已经自己搞定了。

实话实说，为了与你们分享一些你们没有听过的东西，在过去的几个星期里，我倍感压力，因为你们都是哈佛的学生，我不是。

虽然我不是哈佛的毕业生，但我觉得我的个性是很“哈佛”的。

我参加过“防火小姐选美比赛”.那时我16岁，住在田纳西州纳什维尔，问答环节的问题是“小姐，你长大后想成为什么样的人？”等问到我的时候，好的答案都被别人说掉了。

正好那天早上的《今日秀》嘉宾是芭芭拉·沃尔特斯[2],所以我回答：“我想要成为一名新闻工作者。

我想要以一种不同的方式诉说别人的故事，给他们的生活、给这个世界带来一点变化。

”当这些话从我嘴里说出来的时候，我心想“哇！说得太好了！我要成为一名新闻工作者。

我给这个世界带来一点变化。

”我19岁时就已经上电视了。

1986年，我推出了自己的电视秀，一心一意地向成功迈进。

我对那场选美比赛很紧张，结果成了我自己的比赛，每年都向着更高的标准迈进，不停地逼自己，用尽全力。

有谁听着觉得很熟悉吗？最终，我们真的登上了巅峰，一待就是25年。

《奥普拉秀》是同时段收视第一的节目，并且保持了21年之久。

我承认，如此成功让我非常受用。

但是几年前我决定——你们将来也会遇到的——是时候重新开始了，去寻找新的大陆，开辟新的征程。

所以我停掉了《奥普拉秀》，创立了own——奥普拉·温弗瑞电视网。

这个首字母缩写简直是为我量身定制的。

在创业一年后，几乎每一家媒体都宣称我的新事业是一个失败。

不仅是个失败，而且是惨败，他们就是这么说的。

我依然记得那天我翻开《今日美国》，看到一个标题“奥普拉，立足未稳[3]”.我说不是吧，《今日美国》那可是份很稳的报纸啊！[4]正是在去年的这个时候我的职业生涯陷入了最低谷。

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness! im athaaaaaarvard! thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard universitygraduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way. winfrey also received anhonorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录谈失败的好处there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in anotherdirection.世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。

learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. 要从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好地做自己。

2. on her own biggest personal failure.谈自身最大的失败我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天。

然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。

谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性beyonce in all her beyonce-ness ... they all want to know: was that okay? didyou hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you?我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。

三一文库()/演讲稿/毕业典礼发言稿〔Was that okay？——脱口秀女王奥普拉的哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿〕was that okay?——脱口秀女王奥普拉的哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿再大的失败总会翻页“奥普拉秀”在同一时间段的电视节目中连续21年排名第一，我必须说我对于这个成功非常的满足。

但是几年前，我觉得，在人生的某一时刻，你必须重新来过，找到新的领域，实现新的突破。

所以我离开了奥普拉秀，以我的名字命名推出了我自己的电视网络“奥普拉温福瑞电视网”，缩写正好是“own(自己的)”。

在奥普拉温福瑞电视网推出一年后，几乎所有的媒体都认为我的新项目是失败的。

他们称之为一个“大写的失败”。

我还记得有一天我打开《今日美国报》时看到头条说“奥普拉搞不定自己的电视网”……这正是去年我职业生涯最低谷的时刻。

说实话，我压力大到近乎崩溃，感到羞愧。

就在那个时候，faust校长打电话邀请我到哈佛做毕业演讲。

我心想：“让我给哈佛的毕业生演讲?我能跟这些世界上最成功的毕业生说什么?我已经不再成功了啊。

”挂了校长的电话后我去洗了个澡。

那个澡，我洗了很长时间，洗澡时我突然想到一首古老赞美诗中的话：“终于，清晨来临”，之后我就想，我的黎明也许要来了。

我又想到那首赞美诗中的另一句话：“困难只是暂时的，都会过去...”当我走出浴室时，我想：我遇到的麻烦，同样会有结束的一天，我会把这一页翻过去，会好起来的。

等我做到了，我就去哈佛，把这个真实的故事告诉大家!今天我来了，并且想告诉你们，我已经把own带上正轨了。

像这样可以吗?我不得不坦言，在我25年的访谈历程中，我所学到的最重要的，我们的人生有一个共同的公分母。

我可以告诉你的是，我们中的大多数人并不愿意被分割。

我在每次访谈中发现我们的“公分母”、我们想要的，就是——我们想要被证实、被认可。

我们渴望被理解。

我的职业生涯中进行了大约35000个访谈，每每关闭摄像机后，几乎所有人都不可避免地转向我，用他们各自的方式，询问着同一个问题：像这样可以吗?布什总统这样问，奥巴马总统也这样问，我在英雄口中听到过这个疑问，同样也在家庭主妇口中听过这句话。

哈佛校长毕业典礼演讲不论是绘画、生物还是金融，如果你不去尝试做你喜欢的事，不去追求你认为最有意义的东西，你会后悔的。

人生之路很长，总有时间去实施备选方案，但不要一开始就退而求其次。

找个你喜欢的工作吧，要是你在醒着的时间里超过一半都在做不喜欢的事，你很难会感到幸福!不论是绘画、生物还是金融，如果你不去尝试做你喜欢的事，如果你不去追求你认为最有意义的东西，你会后悔的。

人生之路很长，总有时间去实施备选方案，但不要一开始就退而求其次。

找个你喜欢的工作吧，要是你在醒着的时间里超过一半都在做你不喜欢的事，你很难会感到幸福!(本文为哈佛校长Drew Gilpin Faust给XX届本科毕业生的演讲) In the curious custom of this venerable institution, I find myself standing before you expected to impart words of lasting wisdom. Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister — an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches. This moment would have propelled Increase and Cotton into a true “Mather lather.” But here I am and there you are and it is the moment of and for Veritas.这所备受尊崇的学校历来好学求知，所以你们期待我的演讲能传授永恒的智慧。

尊敬的校董们、亲爱的老师们、家长们、同学们：今天，我们齐聚在哈佛大学的这个神圣时刻，共同见证一个重要时刻的到来——我们即将结束在这里的求学生涯，迈向人生的新篇章。

我非常荣幸能够在这个特殊的场合，代表我们这一届的毕业生，发表毕业演讲。

首先，我要感谢哈佛大学，感谢这个充满智慧与魅力的地方，感谢你们为我们提供了一个如此优越的学习环境。

在这里，我们不仅学到了知识，更重要的是，我们学会了如何思考、如何探索、如何成为一个有担当的人。

回想起在哈佛的四年，仿佛就在昨天。

那些深夜在图书馆的奋斗，那些课堂上与教授的激烈辩论，那些与同学们的欢声笑语，都成为了我人生中最宝贵的记忆。

在这里，我学到了许多专业知识，但更重要的是，我学会了如何成为一个终身学习者。

我想，哈佛的精髓之一就是“教育即自由”。

在这里，我们没有被固定的思维模式所束缚，而是被鼓励去探索未知、挑战权威。

这种自由精神，不仅体现在学术研究上，更体现在我们的日常生活和人际交往中。

同学们，当我们踏入哈佛的那一刻起，我们就已经站在了世界的巅峰。

这里汇聚了来自全球各地的优秀人才，我们每个人都有着不同的背景和经历。

这种多元文化的交融，使得哈佛成为了一个思想的熔炉，孕育出无数创新和突破。

在哈佛，我看到了无数的同学在各自的领域里发光发热。

有的同学致力于科学研究，他们的发现可能改变世界的进程；有的同学投身于社会公益事业，他们的努力让无数人的生活变得更加美好；还有的同学在艺术领域展现出了惊人的才华，他们的作品让我们感受到了美的力量。

然而，在这辉煌的背后，我们也不能忘记那些默默付出的努力。

每一次熬夜准备考试，每一次在实验室里反复试验，每一次在舞台上反复排练，都是我们成长的见证。

正是这些艰辛的努力，让我们变得更加坚韧不拔，更加自信。

同学们，当我们即将离开哈佛，踏上新的征程时，我想送给你们几点建议：首先，保持好奇心。

好奇心是推动我们不断前进的动力。

无论在哪个领域，都要保持对知识的渴望，对世界的探索。

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿：如何改变世界。

我很荣幸能在这个特殊的场合与大家分享我的思考，同时也非常感谢哈佛大学和全体工作人员给予我的殊荣。

今天我想谈谈的话题是如何改变世界。

改变世界并不是什么新鲜的话题，我们经常在各种场合听到这个词汇。

但是究竟怎么才能改变世界呢？我认为，首先我们需要从根本上理解什么是世界。

世界不仅仅是指我们身处的这个地球，而是指由无尽的人、事、物所构成的整个宇宙。

我们所处的这个地球只是宇宙中的一小部分。

所以，如果我们想要改变世界，就需要从宏观层面去思考，而不是仅仅停留在局部的改变上。

接下来，我想说的是，要改变世界，我们一定不能忘记最重要的一点：人。

人是社会的基石，人也是世界的灵魂。

只有了解人的需求和情感，才能更好地改变世界，才能更好地解决人类所面临的问题。

那么，我们需要做些什么来更好地了解人的需求和情感呢？我认为，这需要我们关注人的内心世界，知道人需要什么、人渴望什么以及人惊叹什么。

我们需要把握人的情感需求，进而去设计和创造出能够真正满足人们需求的产品或者服务。

只有真正地关注人，才能让创新更加有效，问题也更加直观，从而更好地解决时代所面临的问题。

为了更好地改变世界，我们还需要具备创新精神。

创新是发展的重要推动力，也是改变世界的重要手段。

深入调研、积极尝试、不断挑战、不怕失败、强化思考、勇于创造，这些都是创新精神的体现。

我们需要去推崇创新，建立创新文化，以鼓励和支持创新团队的实践和创新实验。

只有不断创新才能满足人们不断增长的需求，才能够在市场中占有更多的份额。

此外，我们也非常需要拥有勇气和决心去改变世界。

历史告诉我们，很多时候改变世界需要付出巨大的代价，有可能是金钱、有可能是生命。

但是，只要我们深信自己的理念、有坚定的信念，那么我们就不会因害怕而放弃改变世界的决心和行动。

正是因为那些有勇气、有决心去改变世界的人们，才让人类可以在一个个重要的历史时上迎来了不断变革的机遇。

我想说的是，改变世界并不是一件容易的事情。

奥普拉哈佛演讲稿中文Oh my goodness! I’m at Harvard! Wow! To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl [Muller] that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of ’88, your hundred fifteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013! Hello!我的天啊!我在哈...佛!真的!尊敬的Faust校长、和我一起获得荣誉学位的各位，Carl(注：Carl Muller哈佛校友会主席)，真是太棒了，谢谢你们!还有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教职工们，特别感谢我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士(注：美国知名黑人教授)!感谢所有的哈佛校友，特别要感谢88届的毕业生，你们为哈佛捐出一亿一千五百万美元(注：哈佛历史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款)。

所有2013届的各位毕业生们!大家好!I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I’m honored doesn’t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. I’m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.感谢你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章的结束与下一篇章开始的纽带。

奥普拉温弗瑞哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿奥普拉2013哈佛大学毕业典礼英语演讲稿Oh my goodness I m at Harvard Wow To President Faust, my fellow honorands, Carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. All of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars. And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013 Hello I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter. To say that I m honored doesn t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge. And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey. My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration. I m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the quad. Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you. I wanted to beable to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already.I will be honest with you. I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn t heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not. But then I realized that you don t have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality. But it helps. And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come. You know my television career began unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest. That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered. So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn t going to win under the swimsuit competition. So during the question and answe r period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up“ And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone. So I had seen Barbara Walters on the Today Show that morning so I answered “I would like to be a journal ist. I would like to tell other people s stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and theworld.“ And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa This is pretty good I would like to be a journalist. I want to make a difference. Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old. And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first. I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. Sound familiar to anybody here Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years. The Oprah Winfrey Show was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success. But a few years ago I decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground. So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The initials just worked out for me. So one year later after launching OWN nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop. Not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it. I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline “Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN.“ I mean really, USA Today Now that s the nice newspaper It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life. I wasstressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually I was embarrassed. It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower. It was either that or a bag of Oreos. So I chose the shower. And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me. You may not know it. It s “By and by, when the morning comes.“ And I started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole. And the words came to me “Trouble don t last always“ from that hymn, “this t oo shall pass.“ And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it. And when I do, I m going to go to Harvard and I m going to speak the truth of it So I m here today to tell you I have turned that network around And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much. You don t know what motivation you were for me, thank you. I m even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned evenas graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy. Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said “Please Ms. Winfrey, walk decisively.“ I shall walk decisively. This is what I want to share. It doesn t matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you re down there in the hole, it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself. And when you re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it s really okay to feel bad for a little while. Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here s the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. And then figure out what is the next right move. And the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go. Because now and forever more when you Google yourself yoursearch results will read “Harvard, 2013“. And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see “Harvard“ I sit up a little straighter and say “Where is he or she Bring them in.“ it s an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead lawyer, senator, C.E.O., scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host. But the challenge of life I have found is to build a resume that doesn t simply tell a story about what you want to be but it s a story about who you want to be. It s a resume that doesn t just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why. A story that s not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that s really about your purpose. Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out. What is your true calling What is your dharma What is your purpose For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need. She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought well if that little 9 year old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that I wonder what I could do So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month just frompennies and nickels and dimes we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college. That was the beginning of the Angel Network. And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers “Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life. Give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.“ And they did. Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina. So the Angel Network I have been on the air for a long time, but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G.P.S. It helped me to decide that I wasn t going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. Because what had become clear to me and I want you to know it isn t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old. But around 94 I got really clear. So don t expect the clarity to come all at once to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that Iwas here on earth to use television and not be used by it; to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels. So this Angel Network, it didn t just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping. It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort. I saw something on the Bill Moore Show recently that so reminded me of this point. It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler. They lost their 7 year old son, Ben in the Sandy Hook tragedy. And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged. Francine said this, she said “Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not. I m going to tell them what it s like to find a conversation about change that is love, and I m going to do that without fighting them.“ And then her husband David added this, “You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn t agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over. And we cannot do that any longer. The problem is too enormous. There has to be some way that thisdarkness can be banished with light.“ In our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested. And yet, I know you know the truth. We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle. Not my channel, by the way. We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children. They don t have to be incompatible. And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it s possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores. We can do both. And we understand. I know you do because you went to Harvard. There are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity. So the questionis what are we going to do about it Really what are you going to do about it Maybe you agree with these beliefs. Maybe you don t. Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about. Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government. Maybe you want to launch your own television show. Or maybe you simply want to collect some change. Your parents would appreciate that about now. The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change. Each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school. You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country. When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure. That s when your story gets really good. Maya Angelou always says “When you learn, teach. When you get, give. That my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.“ So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.I did it in an analog world. I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day. Now here ina world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds. You re the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008. And when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said you d be too disappointed, you d be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers. That s who you are. This generation your generation I know has developed a finely honed radar for B.S. Can you say “B.S.“ at Harvard The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate. I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic- an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy. I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. Most of us I tell you we don t want to be divided. What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated. We want to be understood. I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question “Was thatokay“ I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama. I ve heard it from heroes and from housewives. I ve heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes. I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness. She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says “Was that okay“ Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you they all want to know one thing was that okay Did you hear me Do you see me Did what I say mean anything to you And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with. That you ll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn t cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else s shoes and recognize all that we share as a people. This is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation. “There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,“ says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December. So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you all of usthat illuminates your very human beingness if you let it. And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters. Although when I first started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada Can-a-da, and that was the end of me being Barbara. I cracked myself up on TV. Couldn t stop laughing and my real personality came through and I figured out oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara. I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test. But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one and that is this to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said “Don t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that because what the world needs is people who havecome alive.“ The world needs- People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale. When Michael was just 8 years old Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet. And in an instant this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever. But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be. He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again. He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees Michael decided to banish that darkness with light. Michael and his brother Harris created to raise 1,000,000 dollars for other amputees. By the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon. More than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael. And when this 13 year old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this “First they will be sad. They re losing something they will never get back and that s scary. I was scared. But they ll be okay. They just don t know that yet.“ We might not always know it. We might not alwayssee it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives but I have faith that no matter what class of 2013 you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay. I have faith because of that 9 year old girl who went out and collected the change. I have faith because of David and Francine Wheeler, I have faith because of Michael and Harris Stolzenberg and I have faith because of you, the network of angeles sitting here today. One of them Kadija Williams who came to Harvard four years ago. Kadija had attended 12 schools in 12 years living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers, homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn t smell in front of her classmates and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard class of 2013. From time to time you may stumble fall, you will for sure count in this no doubt, you will have questions and yo。

失败的女王给哈佛同学讲励志的演讲稿失败的女王给哈佛同学讲励志的演讲稿Oh my goodness！我竟然在哈佛！5月31日.脱口秀女王奥普拉温弗瑞在哈佛的第362个毕业典礼上以这样富有激情的标志性方式开始了一场精彩的演讲。

上台前，她获得了哈佛大学授予的荣誉法学博士学位。

演讲一开场，一向被媒体冠以荣誉和财富象征的奥普拉坦承自己有过不少遇到瓶颈和感觉失败的时刻，我今天有个心愿，希望我将要说的这些话能给所有曾感到卑微、弱势或生活一片狼藉的人带来一些鼓舞。

挫折不可避免19岁时，我上了电视。

1986年，通过不懈努力，我又推出了属于自己的电视节目《奥普拉温弗瑞秀》。

虽然我参加比赛时很紧张，但在我自己的比赛中，我不断逼迫自己尽可能地提升。

最终我做到了最好，并坚持了25年。

《奥普拉温弗瑞秀》播放了二十多年，我取得了很大的成功。

但当人站在某一高度时，就又会寻求改变，去开拓新的领域，新的突破。

2011年9月，我结束了脱口秀生涯，创立了自己的网络：奥普拉温弗瑞电视网。

一年后，网站却因为判断失策、不停地换人、收视率低等问题，几乎被所有媒体认为是失败之作，这也成了我的职业生涯中最困难的时期。

我仍然记得有一天我打开《今日美国》看到标题：奥普拉，不仅仅站在自己的OWN（奥普拉温弗莉电视网）上！对比当时成功的激动人心和现在的失败境况，我感到很沮丧，很尴尬。

可就在那时，我接到哈佛校长的电话，他邀请我来这里演讲，我很惊讶。

居然让我给哈佛的毕业生做演讲？面对世界上每时每刻都会涌现无数成功者的哈佛毕业生，现在如此失败的我，能给他们讲什么？挂了电话后，为了让自己冷静下来，我跑去冲了个澡。

这时候，我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：不久清晨就会来到了。

可当我脑海里闪现清晨的情景时，我却感觉自己被困在一个洞里。

这时我又想起一句话：困难只是暂时的，麻烦总会有结束的一天。

然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。

今天我要站在这里告诉你们，我已经扭转了电视台的局面。

哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲尊敬的各位毕业生、家长、教授们：大家好！首先，我要向各位毕业生们表示最诚挚的祝贺！经过四年的学习和努力，你们终于要迎来人生中非常重要的一个节点——毕业典礼。

在这个特殊的时刻，我很荣幸能够站在这里，与你们共同分享一些我的思考和感悟。

首先，我想告诉大家的是，毕业并不是终点，而是新的起点。

在过去的四年里，你们在这片富有智慧和创新的土壤中茁壮成长，获得了宝贵的知识和经验。

然而，现在是时候将这些学识付诸实践，去改变世界了。

无论你是选择继续深造、创业还是投身于社会，你都将面临各种各样的挑战和困难。

但是，正是这些挑战和困难，让你们有机会超越自己，展现自己的能力和价值。

毕业并不意味着成为“成功人士”，而是意味着你将有机会为社会作出更多更大的贡献。

其次，毕业典礼是一个回顾过去、展望未来的时刻。

在这四年里，你们在哈佛大学度过了人生中宝贵而难忘的时光。

哈佛不仅教会了你们知识，更重要的是教会了你们如何思考、如何学习和如何生活。

然而，现在是时候告别校园，迈向未来了。

你们要面对的是一个充满不确定性和竞争的世界，但请相信自己，相信你们在哈佛所获得的能力和素养能够助你们应对各种挑战。

无论你们将来选择怎样的道路，都要坚持追求真理、追求正义，做一个有担当、有责任的人。

最后，我想告诉大家的是，毕业典礼也是一个感恩的时刻。

感谢那些关心和支持你们的人，无论是家人、朋友还是老师，他们的付出和支持是你们走到今天的动力和支撑。

同时，也要感谢自己，感谢自己在这四年里的努力和坚持。

不论未来会遇到什么样的困难和挑战，要相信自己的能力和勇气，坚持自己的梦想和信念。

亲爱的毕业生们，正如哈佛大学的校训所说：“真理将使你们自由。

”毕业典礼是人生中非常特殊的一刻，它不仅意味着结束，更意味着新的开始。

希望你们能够把握这个机会，勇往直前，为自己的梦想而努力奋斗。

相信自己，相信未来，相信你们能够成为更好的自己，创造更美好的世界！谢谢大家！祝愿大家前程似锦！。

大家好！非常荣幸能够站在这里，与在座的各位分享我的想法和经历。

今天，我想谈谈关于梦想、勇气和改变的话题。

首先，我要感谢哈弗大学给予我这次演讲的机会。

哈弗，这个名字本身就代表着卓越、创新和追求卓越的精神。

在这里，每一位学子都怀揣着梦想，努力奋斗，为实现自己的目标而努力。

我深知，能够在这里发表演讲，是我莫大的荣幸。

回望我的成长历程，我深知梦想的力量。

在我还是个孩子的时候，我就有一个梦想，那就是成为一名优秀的主持人。

这个梦想一直伴随着我，让我在人生的道路上不断前行。

今天，我站在这里，成为了全球知名的主持人，实现了自己的梦想。

这一切，都源于我对梦想的执着追求。

梦想是人生的动力，是改变命运的关键。

正如哈弗大学的校训所说：“Amicus Plato, Amator Veritatis。

”（以柏拉图为友，以真理为爱。

）我们应当追求真理，坚守梦想，不断前行。

那么，如何才能实现梦想呢？以下是我的一些思考：一、明确目标，坚定信念实现梦想的第一步，就是要明确自己的目标，并坚定信念。

在我追求主持人的梦想过程中，我遇到了很多困难和挫折。

但正是这些困难，让我更加坚定了实现梦想的信念。

正如毛泽东所说：“世界上没有无缘无故的爱，也没有无缘无故的恨。

”只有明确目标，才能在人生的道路上勇往直前。

二、勇敢尝试，不断学习实现梦想的过程中，我们需要勇敢尝试，不断学习。

在追求主持人的道路上，我不断尝试各种风格和题材，从模仿到创新，从稚嫩到成熟。

同时，我也努力学习专业知识，提高自己的综合素质。

只有不断学习，才能在竞争激烈的环境中脱颖而出。

三、心怀感恩，传递正能量在实现梦想的过程中，我们要心怀感恩，珍惜身边的人和事。

正是因为有了家人、朋友和同事们的支持和鼓励，我才能走到今天。

同时，我们还要传递正能量，用自己的力量去影响和帮助他人。

正如一句古语所说：“施比受更有福。

”四、勇于担当，承担责任实现梦想的过程中，我们需要勇于担当，承担责任。

面对困难和挑战，我们要敢于迎难而上，不逃避、不退缩。

奥普拉在哈佛大学的毕业典礼演讲：人生没有失败奥普拉是一黑人女子，美国脱口秀主持人，世界级名嘴。

她主持的脱口秀节目在一百多个国家播出，并且连续十六年稳坐美国日间电视谈话节目的榜首。

除了电视节目主持人，她还是娱乐界明星、商场女强人、慈善活动家、亿万富婆。

从身无分文、穷困甚至堕落的黑人孩子到坐拥亿万财富的世界名流，她的人生经历感动和激励着无数人，对全世界的观众来说，她就是美国精神与创业成功的典范。

omg，我竟然在哈——佛!哇哦!尊敬的福斯特校长，与我一同获得荣誉学位的各位，卡尔(哈佛校友会主席)，这真是太棒了，谢谢你，还有哈佛的教职工们，特别感谢我的朋友盖茨教授，感谢所有的校友，特别要感谢88届校友1亿1500万美元的捐款。

还有你们，XX届的毕业生，大家好!感谢你们让我成为你们人生这一篇章结语的一部分，以及下一章节的开始。

“深感荣幸”已无法表达我内心深处对于哈佛授予我荣誉学位的感激之情，不是每个来自密西西比农村的小姑娘都能来到剑桥城(哈佛所在地)。

可以告诉你们，当我今天早晨坐在这台上为你们和自己眼眶湿润的时候，我将今天看做是我漫长、感恩人生中的一个里程碑。

今天我只希望能为你们带来一些启发，我的演讲是为那些曾在人生中感到自卑、感到自己一无所长、甚至觉得生活如一团乱麻的人们准备的。

其实我真的非常荣幸，我想为你们做些特别的事，我希望能跟大家说请看你们的座位下面那里准备了免费的硕士或博士学位证书，但我发现你们已经不缺这个了。

坦诚地说，在过去的几周中我感到压力巨大，因为我想分享一些你们从没听过的东西，毕竟你们都上过哈佛，而我没有。

然而后来我意识到其实并不一定上了哈佛才能获得驱动强迫型a类人格，虽然上哈佛还是多少有所帮助的。

我并非从哈佛毕业，但我认为自己的性格和哈佛毕业生们一样。

大家都知道我的电视事业始于意料之外，正如你们早上听到的，当时我去参加“防火小姐”比赛，16岁，在田纳西的纳什维尔，想赢得比赛还必须事先蓄好一头红发。

奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 oh my goodness! im athaaaaaarvard! thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard universitygraduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way. winfrey also received anhonorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录谈失败的好处there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in anotherdirection.世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。

learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. 要从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好地做自己。

2. on her own biggest personal failure.谈自身最大的失败我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结束的一天。

然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。

谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性beyonce in all her beyonce-ness ... they all want to know: was that okay? didyou hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you?我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、被理解。