Inspirational characters and stories step on their dreams! The road is not far away, but it is in front of us. Please live in the present! Because the road is under your feet. 1, NickVujicic: Life is still wonderful without limbs. NickVujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia. Because of a rare congenital quadriplegia, he has no arms and legs, only an incomplete foot. Although physically disabled, he still surfs, swims, plays golf and plays football on weekdays. Nick graduated at the age of 2/kloc-0 with a double degree-business accounting and financial planning. Then, he began to give inspiring speeches all over the world, mainly to inspire students to face the challenges that teenagers have to face today. 2. South Parado: The most famous air crash miracle in the Andes in history 1972 10 13 On Friday, a plane carrying Uruguayan football players and their families accidentally crashed in the frozen Andes on the way from Uruguay to Chile. After the violent collision, only more than 20 survivors were left, followed by the wreckage of the plane scattered all over the place, the bodies of the victims and the snow and ice all over the mountain. They have been trapped in the mountains for 72 days. Because there was no food to eat, they had to eat the bodies of their companions. Later, Parado and another survivor set out for help and were finally rescued. Parado lost half his family in the air crash. Now, he has become an excellent speaker. 3. JessicaCox: Jessica Cox, the world's first armless pilot from Arizona, USA, lost her arms because of a congenital disease, but she did not bow to her fate, but survived tenaciously. Her extracurricular activities are very colorful, including swimming, gymnastics, dancing and even Taekwondo. In daily life, she uses her feet to make up, wash her hair, wear contact lenses, cook and drive out. The most unexpected thing is that she actually got a pilot's license and became the first armless pilot in the world! 4.SeanSwarner: The first cancer survivor who climbed the highest mountain on seven continents suffered from lymphoma and Askin's sarcoma twice, and the latter even made him lose his right lung, but Sean SWANER has always been optimistic about life. Perhaps it is this positive attitude towards life that has won him wars against diseases again and again. 200 1, Sean set a goal: to be the first cancer survivor to climb Mount Everest. After achieving this goal, he successively climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Alps in Europe, Aguagua Mountain in South Africa, Kosciuszko Mountain in Australia, Luo Yusheng Mountain in Antarctica and Denari Mountain in North America, which are the highest peaks in these six continents. 5. Randy Bosch: The last speech inspired countless people. Randy Bosch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In September 2006, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August 2007, the doctor told Bosh that he had only three to six months to live. A month later, he made a touching speech at school-realizing his childhood dream. From June 5438 to February 2007, someone uploaded a speech video to YouTube, a video sharing website. I didn't expect the click rate to be quite high. In April 2008, Hyperion Bookstore published The Last Lesson, which was very popular and sold more than 3 million copies. It has been on the best seller list of publishers' weekly for 65,438+05 weeks in a row. 6. Ben Ben Underwood: A boy who "sees" the world with his ears? Underwood is a high school student in California. He is 14 years old this year. Like other boys, Ben likes playing basketball, skateboarding and video games, but he is completely blind. At the age of two, Ben had to remove two eyeballs because of retinal cancer, and he lived in darkness from then on. However, people who know Ben say that he is blind at all, and he doesn't feel blind himself. He can hear walls, parked cars and obstacles, and playing chasing games is his specialty. June 5438+October 2009 10, Ben died at the age of 16 because cancer cells had spread to the brain and spinal cord. 7. Liz Murray: Liz Murray, a wandering Harvard girl, was born in a poor family in New York, USA. /kloc-When she was 0/5 years old, her mother died of AIDS. She, her father and sister were homeless and never had a stable residence. However, Liz did not fall like this. With firm faith, she bid farewell to the past step by step. It took her two years to complete the middle school course, and she won an annual scholarship of $65,438+02,000 from The New York Times, and was admitted to the top Harvard University ... Liz is 24 years old. After her success, she was invited to give many speeches all over the United States. She encourages people to get out of adversity and become their own heroes. 8. PatrickHenryHughes: Patrick Henry Hugh is a blind and physically disabled musician. He was born without eyes, and his physical illness prevented him from walking. Patrick learned to play many kinds of musical instruments through tenacious struggle. He even became a student at the Music School of the University of Louisville. Now, he has won numerous awards and realized his childhood dream of becoming a musician. Now he is a pianist, vocalist and trumpet player, and has participated in many large-scale performances. " 9' Zhang Yuncheng was awarded as an "inspirational figure" in 2003. He is a disabled young man in Qingquan Village, Wudalianchi Scenic Area. He suffers from congenital progressive muscle weakness and now suffers from severe lung infection, chronic tracheitis, emphysema, tuberculosis and other diseases. His life is like a kite floating in the strong wind, and it is in danger at any time. Fate seems too cruel to him. He knows that he can only live to be 28, and now he is 24. Onset at the age of 3; 10 years old, only one pillow can be lifted; 12 years old, can only walk with crutches; 14 years old, unable to walk out of the yard; 16 years old, can't walk at all, can only stand up straight; 18 years old, unable to go to the fields; At the age of 20, his arms can't be lifted above his head; Now, I can't even lift a glass of water ... I can't take care of myself at all. For 20 years, his only scenery was his yard. However, when his illness became more and more serious and his hands and feet could not move, he insisted on writing with a pen in his mouth. In five years, he wrote a book of 1.7 million words-"If I can walk for three days", which is the first book written by a patient with myasthenia gravis who truly reproduces the patient's life and struggles with ruthless fate again and again, and has become an annual bestseller. Hope useful to you