Wednesday, August 12, 2026

12 Great Men who influenced my life to what I am today.

12 Great Men who influenced my life 
to what I am today.
Dr Abe V Rotor
Naturalism - the Eighth Sense
15th Year 2801 Posts

Author's Note: Make your own list of great men and women who have influenced your life. Briefly explain in what way, and at what stage they became significantly important. How do you relate them with your present state?
Dr Jose P Rizal National Hero of the Philippines
Abraham Lincoln - most loved US President

Most famous lines of Jose Rizal
“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.” 
“I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die  for our country and convictions.” 
“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will     never get to his destination.”

Abraham Lincoln's favorite lines
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside.
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

Jules Verne; Albert Einstein
Science fiction novelist; Scientist, Man of the 20th Century

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." - Jules Verne

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” - Albert Einstein

Mahatma Gandhi; Carl Jung
Man of the Millennium; Psychologist of the unconscious mind

Gandhi's most famous quote: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Leonardo da Vinci; Demosthenes
Man for all seasons; Greatest Greek orator 

Quotes From Leonardo da Vinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength
  from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
 
 Demosthenes' favorite lines
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
"The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true."
Claude Monet; Martin Luther King
Impressionist painter; Human Rights advocate
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther

St Paul, the Apostle; Charles Darwin
Greatest Apostle; Greatest Naturalist

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. " - Paul, the Apostle
"Survival of the fittest" Charles Darwin
From Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.  Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life." Internet ~

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