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

-If you why is strong enough and clear enough, you can figure out most of the how for yourself.
-Sound judgment is the power of discernment.
-We have good judgment when we have the power to weigh people's motivations, values and priorities in life.
-Someone who is both shrewd and good-willed has the essence of wisdom.
-Sound judgement is the ability to foresee the probable consequences, both good and bad, of a projected course of action.
-The Greeks called responsibility justice, or giving others what is due to them.
-Responsibility means so as to respect the rights of others, included their right not to be offended.
-Responsibility is a habit of doing our duties whether we feel like it or not.
-Fortitude is also known by other words: courage, perseverance, toughness, guts.
-Fortitude is the acquired ability either to overcome or to endure difficulties: pain, discomfort, disappointment, setbacks, worry, tedium, looking different.
-Life brings hardships, and many of these and unavoidable, even insoluble.
-Most of the time, expectations hurts more than reality: that is, anticipated problems nearly always seem worse than they turn out to be once we tackle them.
-Fortitude is a confidence in our problem-solving abilities, built through a lifetime of practice in solving problems.
-There is such a thing as good stress: when we are under reasonable stress and adversity, we all do our best work.
-The power of fortitude is the exact opposite of getting in touch with our feelings, a woefully common outlook today in too many schools and families.
-In real life, self-centered feelings must give way to duty; if they do not, the young people have practically no capacity for sacrifice, which is the absolute essence of real love. Genuine love means ignoring our self-centered feelings for the sake of others.