Thursday, May 6, 2021

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

Great Men who influenced my life to what I am today.
                                                             Dr Abe V Rotor 

Assignment: 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 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

Landscape by Claude Monet

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther

  

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

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. "  - Paul, the Apostle 

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. . Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
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