This page provides a guide on how to write a Motivational Speech for High School Students including Grade 12, Grade 11 and Grade 10. You will see examples of speeches that you can use as a guide to your learners:

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Motivational Speech about life: example

Motivational Speech Presentation

I am a Medical Doctor at ADT Medicals, an organization that is dedicated to excellence and helping people to be the best that they can be.

Everybody wants to be happy in life. We all want to live a perfect life. We want that great job or a successful business. We want to be married to Mr. Right or Mrs Perfect. We want to have great kids. We want to have friends that stick by us come rain or shine. We want to be able to have all the material things life has to offer and have all our problems just disappear.

Everybody wishes for good life. It may be at different levels. One person may define a good life one way and another may describe it another way. For one person a good life may be just having three meals a day and a roof over their head. For another it may be having a huge mansion and a couple of million dollars in the bank.

There are different levels and meanings to what a good life is. But whatever you definition of it, there is perhaps one thing that you may have in common with many other people. You might want that good life stress free. You would like to have it without having to work so hard or struggle so much for it. That is a normal human expectation. Nobody likes to struggle through life.

Unfortunately, that is also what may be stopping you from having that great life. The thought of all that work, all that planning, overcoming hurdles and resistance is enough to make a lot of people give up before they even start. It can all seem too overwhelming, and for many it all just doesn’t seem be worth it. It’s like being drained of energy just at the thought of running a marathon. Before you are even at the starting line the thought of all that running just scares you and tires you so much mentally you just decide not to go for it. It’s just too hard.

One of my favourite books is titled “The Road Less Travelled” by M. Scott Peck. The first sentence in the book is:

“Life is difficult.”

Now, if you pick up a book and the first thing it tells you is “life is difficult” you may just think “is this book going to get reassuring and encouraging after such a start?

But, as Peck goes on to explain, once you accept that life is hard, it no longer becomes an issue that it’s difficult. He says:

“Once we know that life is difficult- once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult.”

In life you will have difficulties getting anything you want. It is very rare to get anything in life without some degree of effort. Only if you win the lottery will you have everything without effort, and even then you would have had to go out and buy the lottery ticket anyway so it’s not free at all.

Life is hard – your boss will not always be the nicest person in the world. Your job will have challenges that you did not foresee. Your workmates will sometimes be a pain. You won’t always get the salary and recognition that you want and deserve at work. Your clients may not be the nicest people in the world.

Life is hard – your kids won’t always be the ideal kids you want them to be. Your wife or husband may not be as perfect as you thought they were when you married them – in fact I can guarantee you they are not. Your home may not be the ideal place you would want it to be. You may not the perfect wife or husband that you once thought you were.

Life is hard – running a business is not as easy as you thought it would be. No one is lining up to bring money to your business, even though you are a really nice person and your business has great products to offer.

I could go on and on with these examples, but the bottom line is that “Life is hard.”

I don’t mean to say in all this that you don’t deserve a break. I am not saying that you are not justified in thinking that you deserve more than what you have gotten from life and the world to this point.

I am not saying that you are not justified in feeling the way that you feel. I know you have had it tough at times. I know that at times you feel that it’s all very confusing and just too hard. I mean you have worked very hard. You’ve done all that you possibly could in your life whether it is at work or at home. But things just don’t seem to have worked out as well as you had planned or hoped. It all just seems to have gone wrong and you don’t know or understand how or why.

But that’s okay. It’s normal. That’s what being human is all about. That’s what life is all about. Life is hard. Accept that.

Once you do, you will feel better about your circumstances. Then you won’t think of your situation as anything but what is common to every human being. Then you will think of your situation as a part of life. You will no longer beat yourself up about how bad things are or how you are not doing so well in one area or another. You will realise that you are only human. You make mistakes just like everybody else. You are not perfect just like everybody else.

But don’t stop there. Accepting that life is hard does not mean that you accept every circumstance and simply go with the flow.

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Motivational Speech for Learners Example 2

Good evening, Members of the Institute, MPA 9 students, Ladies and gentlemen,

I am very pleased to be speaking to you today on behalf of the MPA Alumni.
I hope that you feel as excited as I am to be part of this great moment. I’d like to draw your attention for a few minutes to share with you how important this day is to all of us.

I was asked by FHR to do a motivational speech and asked myself why, because I didn’t graduate with a distinction, I had an overall score of 7.6; and saw my name only once on the grades cup (that’s a cup where you get your name printed on, every time you score the highest grade for an exam), It is something to look forward to. To be honest, I only scored a high grade that time because the class really liked the professor. I could be restless in class, asked all kinds of questions and I liked to have fun.

Than I thought about the fact that I never had to do a resit for an exam, I was always driven and tried to study very hard (despite the fact that I didn’t always keep to the “4 hours study a day” rule of Mr. LiMaPo). In my mind I went back to my graduation day, March 29th 2014, an exciting day that finally came. That day I fell, and hit my head badly around 3 o’clock in the afternoon. I was rushed to the emergency room with deep cuts and bruises on my forehead. We had to be at the institute at 5 0’clock for our graduation pictures (I’m not in any of them…)

I called Charissa, our program manager, and told her that I would still attend the ceremony in time to do the graduation speech. Yeah, I was the one who was scheduled to do the graduation speech and it had to be me in the emergency room. I left the emergency room at 6, hurried over to my house, applied make- up on only half of my face and rushed to FHR with 4 bandages on my head to do my speech.

If that’s not motivation, I don’t know what is.

I was determined to do the speech on behalf of my fellow students. While lying in the emergency room I thought about all I had worked for, all my efforts, the late nights, the example that I wanted to set for my kids, the money I paid my babysitter. I also thought about the mentors, the professors who effortlessly tried to develop our/my professional skills trigger our intellect, let us speak our mind so they could have a better sense on how to guide us through their lectures. I thought about Mr. LiMaPo, a brilliant mentor, who effortlessly was involved in every lecture, every grade and supplied us with apples. “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away”.

Do you know that when we came in late for a lecture, we had to pay a fee? And that our class-elder, who happened to be a woman, could easily function in the military as a sergeant. That we had different personalities in class, annoying students, funny, bold, quiet, nerdy, super intelligent, or just the know it all. Please look forward to all of that. Look around you; these are going to be not only your friends or colleagues, but also your source of inspiration to achieve your goals…. your TEAM!

TEAM stands for: “Together Each Accomplishes More”, and that’s exactly what will have to happen. Not only will you be working individually but also in groups where you will have the challenge to bring together different kinds of people with different perspectives to participate in one subject, remember “None of us is as smart as all of us”.

Education is the core for our society and human beings. It runs like a highway through our lives. It takes us from early years learning, through primary and secondary school, to tertiary education and life-long learning of skills and knowledge. For every person, education provides the skills for better employment, improved health, life opportunities, welfare and wellbeing.

Today, you are taking a new step into a world where higher education is undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation. We live in an era when knowledge is growing in importance in addressing the world’s most pressing problems, when technology promises incredible possibilities, when global forces increasingly shape our lives and work, when traditional intellectual fields are shifting and converging, and when public expectations and demands of higher education are intensifying.

An educated workforce will allow us to effectively pursue our goals, Visions and missions of our people, organizations and societies. So education is in our society’s best interest. I cannot stress enough the important role the LiMaPo institute has in further educating our people. This is something we all have to support and that is why you’re here today. So make sure that you grow, change, learn, while inspiring others to do so too.

Confucius once said: “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
I hope your time at FHR changes your life. It certainly changed mine. It may get difficult at times but keep going; it will be well worth it in the end. Good luck with your studies and have fun.

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