Compass, a handbook on parents leadership by James Stenson. Quotes

-Parents really win success with their children only in the long term. Parents succeed with their children when the kids grow up to become competent, responsible, considerate, and generous men and women who are committed to live by principles of integrity, adults who bring honor to their parents all their lives through their conduct, conscience, and character. Raising children like this is what parenthood is all about.
-When parent bring children into the world, they set out on the greatest, most satisfying adventure of all.
-Clear thought is necessary for any leadership.
-Knowing where you are going helps you know what you are doing, and this builds the courage you need to stick with your mission, no matter what.
-Parents must teach their children the invisible. Conscientious and savvy parents lead their children to know, and live by, those internal, invisible realities that form a great life: honor, integrity, self-mastery, courage, courtesy, dedicated service, sacrificial love, conscience, God, grace, the soul. Great men and women, it seems at moved mostly by what's invisible.
-Before we delve into details of how this is done, we must first stand back and look at the big picture, the why. So we begin by looking at character.
-Character is what each of us is, minus our money and possessions.
-Character is what people admire in us besides our talents and acquired skills.
-Character is what makes people proud and delighted to count us as friends, not just acquaintances. It is what makes friendships last a lifetime.
-Character is an integration of what the greatest minds of antiquity used to called virtues, those powers of mind and will and heart built up through repeated practice:
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Character to them, is the sum total of these habitual powers joined together in one's personality.
-In more modern day, commonsensical terms:
Prudence: is sound judgment and conscience.
Justice: is a sense of responsibility and fair play.
Fortitude: is courage, persistence, guts.
Temperance: is self-mastery, self-discipline, self-control.
-To this four classical concepts of virtue, we add the other, the heart. This is generosity, magnanimity, charity, a capacity for compassionate understanding and forgiveness.