Influential people

The influence in my life. I look at those who deserve to have an influence in my life because of the things that they have done. This of course is not a complete list but its just some I could think of off the top of my head. Let me know who you look up to and why

This list consists of Ghandi for his dedication to his cause and the passion and zeal he had for peace and changing the world, Michael Jordan for his dedication to perfecting the gifts and talents that he was given and dedication to being the best, Mike Ditka for showing compassion for people (I know these two terms arent used very often but really Mike Ditka started a foundation to assist in medical bills for permenantly injured NFL players), Nelson Mandela for his dedication to elimainating racial oppression within a government to establish a democracy; as well as his undying hope to see what he started finished even imprisonment lasting over twenty years, Martin Luther King Jr. and his willingness to dream, Eleanor Roosevelt and her stepping outside of the mold to use her gifts to make a difference, Walt Disney and his ability to call to establish excellence for the sole purpose of bringing joy to people, Jackie Robinson and his strength to endure an oppression, The Wright brothers and their refusal to give up, Mother Teresa and her unwaivering dedication to the poor, how about any soldier that has served in the armed forces and their willingness to serve even though they were/are not respected, how about Josiah Jimison and the heart of a servant willing to sacrafice for laundry love, Charles Lee and his passion for saving just one... Heres some quotes to chew on

-Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa

-Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. -Aristotle

-When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". -Erma Bombeck

-Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -Henry Ward Beecher

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. -Saint Augustine