First and foremost my late parents O”H inspired me and continue to do so. Any mailos I might have are 100% because of them (but any chesronos I have chalilah, are decidedly NOT their fault). Their ongoing acts of chessed even until virtually their death, were known primarily to us, but also to my father’s patients who often could not pay him, but were never turned away. My mother’s hachnosas orchim was so gracious and generous, you felt like family even if you were a newcomer to our home, and that is how I try to pattern my own home.
After my parents, and without making reference to rabbonim or specific Gedolim, because that should go without saying – I am also inspired by my children, and even by my very young eineklach, whose temimus helps me to always look at things in a fresh way when I am with them.