Of all the people you'd deem respectable, admirable or good role models (local people or famous), what traits do they all seem to have in common?

[MCheetah]

I think:
- martial arts
- a military background or family
- high discipline
- a stoic/calm mindset
- And strong family values (not even necessarily "conservative," but just any loving family)
... Seem to be all the things the famous people I think are respectable, have in common.

WISH I HAD ALL OF THOSE THINGS GROWING UP, LET ALONE JUST ONE OF 'EM! I did martial arts for eight years, from 2012 to 2020, from boxing, to Jiu Jitsu, to MMA, and never learned a thing from it or was ever happy doing it. If anything, it made me more depressed! The abusive mother, Precocious Puberty, and treatment I got from girls growing up, I have to thank for the initial depression. I'd pretty much do anything to have a normal, well-adjusted brain like these people possess.

Lee

Carano

Rogan

Gabbard

Willink

Reeves (right)

Cavill (left)

Ali

I was going to say "tall" is also required to be respectable too, but Lee, Rogan, and Jocko are short as f*ck.

Besides Lee and Ali, everyone on here is still alive, so I won't have to get into all the historical figures I could also list, like MLK and all.

Anyway, what traits do all the people you respect, seem to share?

[Fuentes]

Dwight D Eisenhower

Malcolm X

MLK

Col Chamberlain civil war union officer

All of these guys were disciplined and highly calculated and every move was a strong chess peice, in times of battle. Even when I've and things seem impossible they all pushed for the best.

Dwight won WW2, as the leader if the allied forces what man steps into a war going on for years and helps end it I'm a year and a half, he also started integration in the US and since the racist local police and lawmakers refused to do their job and protect children from crazies blocking them from going to school and telling the little black kids they would kill them, he deployed martial law and got. the 82nd airborne and Military police to help protect the children why they got to school and went to school. Made those stupid bitch made racist feel like terrorist.

Malcolm X regardless of him being a muslim he taught men to be discipline he start out with racist rhetoric but when he educated himself more and went to other countries like Africa to explore he realized everyone is human and he should love everyone it made him a stronger speaker and taught those to start defending themselves and demand rights & he died standing on what he believed in as a man who was nothing and knew nothing to something despite what the world threw at him and how many people betrayed him.

MLK - taught the power of the mind will get you heard, and rallying the people up ne brought blacks and whites together and led amillion man March. He went into the lions den and got arrested for it and still proved were all human and he did that off of a dream he had, whether or not he was prophetic each move he made was calculated and he pushed for justice for all. The man was dangerous if he could lead a million what else could he did so they whacked him but he died standing on it.

Col Chamberlain - he won little roundtop. that battle was vital the most important battle in civil war history, when they ran out of ammo they mounted up their bayonets and ran down the hill, he led his men down that hill with a sword, he scared the confederate so bad they started running and when they took their guns they shot them all down & won that battle it sent Lee running. Very smart man in a time they thought they all would die without ammo he raised his sword and told his men were going down this hill gwt your knifes and bayonets ready and were charging down & they won.

All these guys are men and when times of uncertainty they all made big moves.

[JDavid25]

-Iron Will

-Discipline

-Willing to search for the actual truth

-Uncompromising to their beliefs and morals.

-Brave/Fearless

I also value a lot of those that you put up there.. It's one of the reasons I love Shonen anime protagonist so much.. Even though they are fictional they have the attributes I love.. Jocko Willink is a beast from what I heard.. Thomas Sowell even though he doesn't have the physical prowess obviously has an Iron will for knowledge and had the gall to short for the actual truth instead of pedal propaganda.. Those types of people inspire me because they are better than me.. Like you, I am working to possess those traits even more.

[alice55]

Strong family value, calm and far right voter

[Jccowen77]

They all have guts. I admire people with great courage. Martin Luther King, Oscar Schindler, Ghandi, Rosa Parks, Frank Serpico, Paul Rusesabagina, etc. These people had courage beyond the average person. They risked more than a downvote or a dislike on social media, or being deplatformed. For most of them it could mean they could well die for their cause, as it was with MLK and almost with Serpico.

[exitseven]

I agree with the one about the family. Also the self dicipline.

[A_Bell]

Loyalty.

[USLegionary]

Discipline