Ask for a few short stories of famous people that children can use to make speeches. It's better to tell stories first, and then tell who they are! Thank you very much.

1. "You want a pair of shoes, here is a pair of socks."

Mr. Smith, the owner of the shoe store, kindly said to a child who had no shoes and longed for shoes on Christmas Eve: "Son, each of us will pray for God in our hearts, but he can't give us ready-made good things, just like in the orchard where we live, everyone pursues fruit, but God can only give us a seed." Only by sowing this seed in the soil and taking good care of it can it produce beautiful flowers in autumn. " ..... Son, as long as you take these socks to find your dream shoes, never look back and never give up, then you will succeed one day. In addition, God specially asked me to tell you that he has given you more than anyone else, as long as you are not afraid of failure and pay! " ……

Thirty years later, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who were over seventy, received a letter from a stranger, which wrote:

Dear Sir and Madam,

Do you remember the young man who picked up cinders on Christmas Eve thirty years ago? He prayed to God to give him a pair of shoes, but God didn't give him a pair of shoes, but gave him something more valuable than gold and a pair of socks with ulterior motives. It is these socks that activate his self-confidence and unyielding life! This kind of help is more important than any compassionate charity. Give people a pair of socks and let them find their dream shoes. This is your great wisdom. Heartfelt thanks to the kind and wise couple. He found the most precious shoes for him with the socks you gave him.

I am the poor boy.

Signed at the end of the letter: abraham lincoln!

2. "Change a color once in a lifetime"

1924, a new life was born in Utah, USA, as if it were in our nature. Since he was a child, he was tired of the shackles brought by schools and churches and refused to accept traditional ideas. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, he suddenly wanted to go to work, but he was not old enough, so he forged a baptism certificate and called himself 16. He joined a cannery and began to pour sewage. He worked as a milkman, porter, slaughterhouse worker and farm pesticide sprayer. ...

Relatives around him say that he is too rebellious, it is difficult to become a talent in the future, and there is no hope for him. When he was 27 years old, a consumer finance company offered him a suitable job. However, he still fidgeted. Under his influence, several young people with an average age of only 20 followed him, and their efforts produced good results. The company's performance has miraculously increased at a high speed, but the conservative leadership of the company can't stand him at last. In less than a year, he was fired from the company. Later, I wandered to Seattle and accidentally entered a financial group to organize consumer lending business. Over time, his unruly nature gradually emerged. In that era when conservatism prevailed, his efforts to break away from convention and reform and innovate organizational management failed again.

At the age of 36, he was the father of three children and his life was very difficult. Desperate, he had to knock on the door of the National Commercial Bank of America and become an intern. His job is similar to a handyman. Nearly forty years old, he is often transferred by various departments, and he has to send and book.

In this way, the life of the lower class lasted 16 years, and his rebellious character made him suffer a lot, but he didn't do anything he wanted to do. However, stubborn, he kept telling himself that he must find a chance to shine in this life.

1967, he is 43 years old. When many people no longer have hope for life, he won a turning point in life. The National Commercial Bank of the United States developed the credit card business, and he got a role to assist in the work, and won the support of the bank's top management with an unconventional idea. With more than 30 years of yearning and practice for innovative organizational management, after nearly two years of active exploration, he finally succeeded. Under the condition that there was no internet at that time, he developed a global system of "value exchange" and founded an organization "VISA International", which became a hardcore sponsor of the Olympic Games in the next 22 years. Today, Visa's turnover is 10 times that of Wal-Mart, and its market value is twice that of General Electric. It has become the largest commercial company in the world, and more than one-sixth of the world's population has become its customers. He was naturally promoted to the position of the founder of Visa Credit Card Network Company, and later became the founder and CEO of "Mixed Order Alliance".

He was elected to the Corporate Hall of Fame, and was named as one of the "eight most easily changed lifestyles in the past 25 years" by the influential American magazine Money. His name is Dee Hock.

In fact, he is just like you-from humble origins, but with lofty ideals. Many years ago, he played the song Bing Yi in the 1983 version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. In order to add a little drama, he asked the director to arrange for Mei Chaofeng to kill him with both hands, but he was told that he could only kill him with one hand. This humble little guy was called a "walk-on" when he was young. He burst into laughter when he first talked about acting in front of the director. But he kept thinking and admonishing the director until he became a director in 2002. That year, he won the Academy Award "Best Director Award".

In fact, just like you-in the 1990s, on a train bound for the west, he wore short-sighted glasses and parted hair. He looked full of vigor, but his heart was slightly hesitant. At that time, he was serious and boring, and often sat alone for hours without talking. Later, I switched to be a host. When his first TV program was broadcast on 1998, he found that almost all his words were cut by the director. He asked his wife, as a producer, to prepare a notebook, record all the problems in his hosting, even the smallest ones, and then discuss and correct them one by one. Even though his worth has exceeded 400 million today and he has become the most influential host in China, he still hasn't given up thinking.

In fact, just like you-10 years ago, he was a "punk" in college and was often scolded by his teacher for skipping classes. After graduation, I was assigned to the local telecommunications bureau as a clerk. Facing the complicated office work, he felt tired and distressed. Later, he resigned bravely and decisively, and then created his own website, which led to the wave of Internet in China. He ranked first in Forbes China Rich List in 2003.

In fact, just like you-he was an anti-theft system installation engineer five years ago. According to him, "it's like a plumber's job." "Sometimes you have to dig a hole to install the monitoring system. Once you think of the lyrics, write them out quickly! " At that time, he wrote lyrics while working and accumulated more than 200 lyrics in half a year. He selected more than 100 lyrics, bound them into a book, and sent 65,438+000 copies to major record companies. "At that time, I estimated that only 12.5 copies would be seen by the producers. Except for the inexplicable selective delivery by the counter lady, production assistant and propagandist, the chance of being contacted was only 1%." In fact, 1% is 100%! 1in the early morning of July 7, 997, he was preparing to install anti-theft work. Someone called him, and his name was Wu Zongxian. Fortunately, there is also a nobody-Jay Chou. From the song he collaborated with Jay Chou, no one wanted it, to the song without words, all the words were asked slowly, and then the words were asked separately, but three or four authors would write it together until the words that wanted him were finally specified.

Maybe you have guessed who they are. One is Stephen Chow, the other is Li Yong, the other is Ding Lei and the other is Fang Gang. They are some of the most famous people in China at present.

They were not much different from you before they became famous. Don't complain about the inequality between the rich and the poor, untimely birth, social injustice, unequal opportunities, rigid system, complicated institutions and hard to find Bole. You know, in fact, everyone enjoys equal opportunities to get ahead. Tomorrow, or next year, people as successful as them will be born, depending on whether you are today or not.