While this doesn't have the literary flow or the force "Five Reasons I Love Fluttershy" does, I still think it is a nice compliment to that essay. Therefore I'm putting a copy here for safe keeping.

Some of you may be groaning, “Oh, here's Wingnut again. Incoming wall of text! TL;DR! Duck and cover!” I wish I could promise this will be shorter than “Five reasons I love Fluttershy”. But it's actually a little longer.

 

Applejack is more self-giving than any pony I know. Applebuck Season showed how hard she drives herself when her family is counting on her. When she failed to win a first place ribbon in The Last Round Up, she thought she brought so much shame on her family and Ponyville that she decided to exile herself. And there are numerous more subtle examples of how she puts others' happiness and well being ahead of her own. This grew out of the loss of her parents at a young age.

 

In Apple Family Reunion, Applejack verbally worried that some of her relatives may be too busy to attend the next family reunion but her body language tells a different tale. She was thinking of the other meaning of “not making it”. I thought the animation here was nicely done. Applejack's face saddened as she took a moment to reflect on her deceased parents. In my opinion, this is the most poignant scene in the entire series. Her brief expression of sorrow promptly gave way to one of resolve. Applejack knows that each day is a gift and tomorrow is promised to no one. This is the real reason she was so determined to make this the most memorable reunion ever. And it is also why she is a workaholic who routinely denies herself for the sake of others.

 

Kindness is Fluttershy's wonderful long-term response to being brutally teased as a filly. Anybody who took the time to read “Five Reasons I Love Fluttershy” already knew I would say this about her. It was true then, and it is true now. If anypony had a reason to hate the world, it's Fluttershy. She could've easily grown up to be a full-time Flutterbitch. But thankfully, she had the support of her one true friend Rainbow Dash and a chance to escape the torment of her fellow students. These enabled Fluttershy to choose kindness over resentment and friendship over fear.

 

Pinkie Pie's greatest gift is her ability to bring out the best in others. Pinkie first demonstrates this in the series opener. On their first ever mission together, fear fell upon her new friends as they wandered into the Everfree Forest. It was her laughter that raised their spirits and gave them the confidence to push on. In A Friend In Deed, Pinkie met a seriously depressed newcomer. He was living in the past and had lost the spark and the joy that makes life worth living. In her quest to see that nobody goes unhappy, Pinkie did the one thing that could remedy his problem by reuniting him with his long lost girlfriend.

 

I can even cite two examples of Pinkie Pie physically bringing out the best in others. The first was in Baby Cakes. Pound and Pumpkin weren't just exhibiting mild outbursts of unicorn and pegasus power, they were tearing it up! My personal belief is that it was their proximity to Pinkie which caused them to be so much stronger than older kids like Sweetie Belle. The other instance is in A Canterlot Wedding. By herself, Twilight Sparkle can only fire magic bolts one at a time like a semi-automatic. But with one touch of her tail, Pinkie Pie turned her into a Changeling mowing Gatling gun!

 

There is one thing that Rainbow Dash cherishes more than the thrill of victory. And that is the rewarding feeling that only comes from helping others. This is the one constant throughout Rainbow Dash's life. In Cloudsdale as a filly, she defended Fluttershy from the bullies who were teasing her. It is her motivation in The Mysterious Mare Do Well. At least until she became addicted to the adulation of her fellow citizens anyway. A desire to help her friends as well as Equestria is her impetus in each of the series two-parters. And she even wanted to help a small pony avoid the disappointment of losing the Equestria Games in Games Ponies Play.

 

Although Rarity is sometimes self-centered and unaware of the problems of others, her soul is that of a giver, not a taker. Episodes like Suited for Success, Sisterhooves Social, and Secret of My Excess show this the most. Unfortunately, Rarity's reputation as a drama queen sometimes obscures her Element of Generosity. Although Rarity's character isn't as mistreated as Pinkie Pie's, Fluttershy's, or Spike's for comic relief, I do wish they showed her generosity a little more often.

 

Twilight Sparkle's realization that the power of friendship is stronger than any magic spell. I know this looks very cliché and it plays right into MLP:FiM's underlying theme. But it still rings true. Lessons about friendship were the only thing Princess Celestia couldn't teach Twilight in a Canterlot classroom. In order to wield the Elements of Harmony, it was necessary for her to form the bonds of friendship with five other ponies. But there's more. In order to promote Twilight to the position of power Celestia had planned for her in the future, she would have to learn everything about the true power of friendship first. And Celestia knew Ponyville was the perfect environment for her to undergo those studies!

 

Hmm, curiously only my thoughts on the two earth ponies turned into two paragraphs. Thank you to everybody who took the time to completely read my 5,000 character post!

Source: What is your favorite thing about each Mane 6 pony?