INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH TOPICS

• How to improve sales goals?

• Importance of teamwork

• Effective leadership

• You can win!

• How to set realistic goals?

• What is strategic planning?

• How to achieve effective decision-making?

• Importance of focus at work

• How to not let external forces demotivate you?

• How to achieve targets without getting stressed?

• Importance of work ethics

• Dealing with difficult people at the workplace

• Overcoming job stress

• Dealing with mistakes at work

• How does self-motivation work?

• Believe in yourself

• Being confident

• It's now or never

• How to motivate yourself to exercise?

• How to stay away from negative peer pressure?

• Admitting mistakes and learning from them

• How to overcome adversities in life?

• How to be a responsible teenager?

• Importance of discipline in life

• Treat others the way you wish to be treated

• How positive thinking helps

• How to motivate yourself to study?

• Building self-esteem ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH TOPICS

• What makes two people compatible?

• How to give relationship advice?

• Importance of relationships

• Things moms always say

• Blind dating

• What not to say at an interview?

• How to drive people crazy?

• How to become popular?

• Could Santa Claus be a woman?

• Can women supersede men in every field?

• Strange dress codes

• Rare pronunciations

• IQ tests

• Bad hair day

EULOGY SPEECH TOPICS

Barack Obama Peyton Manning Michael Jordan

Jennifer Lopez Muhammad Ali Madonna

Tom Hanks Steven Spielberg Bono (U2)

Will Smith Robert De Niro Morgan Freeman

Al Pachino Queen Elizabeth

TRIBUTE SPEECH TOPICS

• Accomplishments of George Washington • Life and work of Mahatma Gandhi • Life of Mother Teresa • An account of Helen Keller's Life • Albert Einstein's contributions to science • How Abraham Lincoln overcame his failures • People who changed the World • World's greatest leaders • Entrepreneurs who took risks • People who rose from the ashes • Successful entrepreneurs who overcame adversities • Winston Churchill contributions • John Lennon’s contributions to the music industry • Bob Geldof • Charles Lindbergh – how he changed aviation • Martin Luther King Jnr. – how he impowered Civil Rights and equality for all • Nelson Mandela • Mahatma Gandhi • Rosa Parks

INTRODUCTION / DEDICATION / ACCEPTANCE SPEECH TOPICS

(lifetime achievement award / statue-building-park)

• Lance Armstrong – retired cyclist and cancer research

• Oprah Winfrey- retired talk show host and support of many philanthropy projects

• Angelina Jolie – actress and Goodwill Ambassador for UN Refugee Agency

• Bette Midler founded The New York Restoration Project. For the past decade the Project, working through a public/private partnership, has been responsible for the restoration, cleaning and development of hundreds of neglected public sites in New York and has removed over 75,000 tons of garbage and debris from these sites.

• Bono – singer and humanitarian

• Dolly Parton founded a literacy project.

Brad Pitt's foundation helps in the restoration of the Ninth Ward in Louisiana.

• Ellen Degeneres – actress, standup comedian, talk show host, advocate for Global Aids Awareness

• Jimmy Carter – Past President and contributor of Habitat for Humanity

• Jerry Lewis – retired actor and chairman of MSD Association

• Liz Taylor (who almost single-handedly brought AIDS awareness to the US).

COMMEMORATIVE SPEECH TOPICS

• The 4th of July - commemorating all those instrumental in achieving independence and all those who worked towards the nation's cause. It is indeed a celebration for the citizens of the country, as also a day to remember all those who devoted their lives for social well-being.

• 911 – commemorating all those who sacrificed their lives to help others; both living and dead; noting their bravery, courage, didication, loyalty and service to helping others.

• American Civil War and the Battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run) - Help commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the • • Black History Month • Memorial Day • D-day • Vietnam Veterans Wall Memorial

FAREWELL SPEECH TOPICS

Chipper Jones, Atlanta Braves, leaving baseball

Uggie, the scene-stealing Jack Russell who also appeared in "Water for Elephants," and “The Artist” will quit making feature films

David Letterman – late night talk host

George Lucus

Aretha Franklin

INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH

ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH

EULOGY SPEECH

TRIBUTE SPEECH

INTRODUCTION SPEECH

DEDICATION SPEECH

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

COMMEMORATIVE SPEECH

FAREWELL SPEECH