Standing for Something

Standing for Something

Author(s)	Gordon B. Hinckley
Genre(s)	Self-improvement
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	2000
Media type	Print
Pages	256
ISBN	0-8129-3317-6

Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes is a self-improvement book by Gordon B. Hinckley, the 15th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The foreword to the book was written by Emmy Award-winning journalist Mike Wallace, and it bears endorsements by William J. Bennett, Stephen R. Covey, and United States Senator Joseph Leiberman.

The book became a New York Times Best Seller in 2000 in the "advice and how-to category,"^[1] and it received the 2000 Devotional Award from the Association for Mormon Letters.^[2]

The book's ten virtues

Hinckley composed ten virtues:

Virtue 1 - Love: The Lodestar of Life
Virtue 2 - Where There Is Honesty, Other Virtues Will Follow
Virtue 3 - Making a Case for Mortality
Virtue 4 - Our Fading Civility
Virtue 5 - Learning: "With All Thy Getting, get Understanding"
Virtue 6 - The Twin Virtues of Forgiveness and Mercy
Virtue 7 - Thrift and Industry: Getting Our Houses in Order
Virtue 8 - Gratitude: A Sign of Maturity
Virtue 9 - Optimism in the Face of Cynicism
Virtue 10 - Faith: Our Only Hope

References

^ Kirk Johnson (3 February 2008). "Mormons Say Farewell to President". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/03mormons.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
^ Gae Lyn Henderson. [http://www.aml-online.org/About.aspx "Passionate about Mormon Fiction, Drama, and Film? Discover the Association for Mormon Letters"]. Association for Mormon Letters. http://www.aml-online.org/About.aspx. Retrieved 27 June 2011.