Standing for Something explained

Standing for Something
Author:	Gordon B. Hinckley
Genre:	Self-improvement
Publisher:	Random House
Pub 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 Joe Lieberman.

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 Morality
• 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

Notes and References

1. News: Mormons Say Farewell to President . Kirk Johnson . 3 February 2008 . . 27 June 2011.
2. Web site: Passionate about Mormon Fiction, Drama, and Film? Discover the Association for Mormon Letters . Gae Lyn Henderson . . 27 June 2011.