i'm a leader: part twelve

This past week we all presented our book reports to the class. Earlier in the semester we had all chosen a book from "the list" to read. Of course I think it's safe to say 95% of us didn't read our books until days before. However, mine was a good read. I read "Standing for Something" by Gordon B. Hinckley. I chose this book because I liked that it would be spiritually uplifting, as well as insightful.
It was exactly that. I loved reading a book that a prophet had written and experiencing his writing style and personal voice. President Hinckley's book centers around 10 Virtues. He puts these virtues so plainly to state their importance. He also includes many interesting stories that make the reading easy.
As I told my class during my presentation, this book was not written to make it you a better leader. It is a book written to make you a better person, which in turn will make you a better leader. Also, the virtues he highlights are virtues that are becoming less and less important to the world. If we work on these virtues and follow his counsel in this book, we will naturally become leaders and examples to the world.
Reading this book made me grateful, motivated, and it grew my testimony of living prophets. President Hinckley was a man of optimism, great depth, and eternal understanding of what matters most.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from him:

"If we would 

individually and collectively resolve to 

stand for something, 

to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our eternal father, 

those supplications would be heard, and the results would be 

r e m a r k a b l e."