Ladies and Gentlemen ， Good MORNING！ I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech。 today my topic is “youth”。 I hope you will like it ， and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it。
First I want to ask you some questions：
1、 Do you know what is youth？
2、 How do you master your youth？
Youth
Youth is not a time of life， it is a state of mind ； it is not rosy cheeks ， red lips and supple knees， it is a matter of the emotions ： it is the freshness ； it is the freshness of the deep springs of life 。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite ， for adventure over the love of ease。 This often exists in a man of60 more than a boy of20 。 Nobody grows old merely by a number of years 。 We grow old by deserting our ideals。
Years wrinkle the skin ， but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul 。 Worry ， fear ， self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust 。
Whether60 of16， there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders， the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living 。 In the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station ： so long as it receives messages of beauty ， hope ，cheer， courage and power from men and from the infinite， so long as you are young 。
When the aerials are down ， and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism， then you are grown old ，even at20 ， but as long as your aerials are up ，to catch waves of optimism ， there is hope you may die young at80。
Thank you！
青春青春不是指歲月，而是指心態(tài)。粉嫩的臉，紅潤(rùn)的唇，矯健的膝并不是青春。青春表現(xiàn)在意志的堅(jiān)強(qiáng)與懦弱。想象的豐富與蒼白、情感的充沛與貧乏等方面。青春是生命深處清泉的噴涌。
青春是追求。只有當(dāng)勇氣蓋過(guò)怯弱、進(jìn)取壓倒茍安之時(shí)，青春才存在。果如此，則60見(jiàn)之長(zhǎng)者比20歲之少年更具青春活力。僅僅歲月的流逝并不能使他們衰老。而一旦拋棄理想和信念，則垂垂老也。
歲月只能使皮膚起皺。而一旦喪失生活的激情，則連靈魂枯老，使人生枯如死水，毫無(wú)活力。
60歲長(zhǎng)者也好，16歲少年也罷，每個(gè)人的內(nèi)心深處都渴望奇跡，都如孩子一般眨著期待的雙眼，期待著下一次，期待著生活的情趣，你我靈魂深處都有一座無(wú)線(xiàn)電中轉(zhuǎn)站——————只有你我年輕，則總能聽(tīng)到希望的呼喚，總能發(fā)出喜悅的歡呼，總能傳達(dá)勇氣的訊號(hào)，總能表現(xiàn)出青春的活力………
一旦青春的天線(xiàn)倒下，你的靈魂即為玩世不恭之雪、悲觀(guān)厭世之冰覆蓋；即使你年方20。其實(shí)你已垂垂老也。而只要你青春的天線(xiàn)高高聳起，就可以隨時(shí)接收到樂(lè)觀(guān)的電波—————即使你年過(guò)八旬，行將就木，而你卻仍然擁有青春，你仍然年輕。
謝謝！
