With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XVIII

-Whatever power a leader has is overshadowed by the cares and responsibilities that go with leadership.
-If a leader has a vision, he cannot simply impose it.
-A leader must constantly, endlessly consult, listen, strive for consensus. Far from getting his own way, he must constantly seek the compromises that will bring people together. Far from getting his own way, a leader is constantly trying to understand the viewpoints of others and to persuade them to consider his own viewpoint.
-Leadership is about vision and courage.
-Leadership sometimes requires taking a lonely stand.
-A true leader has the inner strength to lose in a good cause rather than to win in a bad one.
-Leadership consists of just such tiny, quiet, and unspectacular acts.
-Leadership requires above all, character: the ability to cling to a vision, the patience and endurance to persuade others, a thick hide for criticism and unpopularity, a tolerance for anxiety, and a willingness to lose in a good cause, even a willingness to die for your fellow man in a righteous cause.
-At the heart of leadership is character.
-That's the reason we care most of all not how smart you are, not what a good athlete or musician or whatever you are, but what kind of person you are.
-Principle, not popularity, motivated Churchill to stand up to Hitler.
-Some adults who work with young people have a desperate need to be popular, to tell kids what they want to hear.
-Preemptive capitulation.
-Every age is an age of change in which people challenge the traditional values.
-The survival of civilization in every generation depends on a few institutions and individuals, depends on a small minority of people dedicated to working for the public good.
-These are the values we hold: honesty, simplicity, respect and concern for others, the acknowledgment of the Eternal in the midst of the transitory. Such values are never, in any generation, popular, but these are our values. The great schools stood unabashedly against the times and against the culture.
-The quality of life in each generation is determined by a very small number of people who dare to stand against the times, against the culture.
-This school was founded to create an elite of responsibility and obligation, not an elite of privilege.
-You are already different. You already live by values that relatively few young men your age share. In every generation the world is saved by a few people who stand for something: Socrates, Moses, Churchill, Rosa Parks, Mother Theresa.
-There is another way. It is the way of the few who want to do something great with their lives, who do not fear unpopularity, who dare to risk defeat and even death standing for what they believe in.
-Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
-That's the perfect definition of courage: to risk trying something that's worth trying that you are not already good at.
-It is a risk to say no to something that's wrong. Your peers may scorn you, reject you, make you feel alone and out of it. On the other hand, some may admire the inner strength that enables you to stand alone. Some may even join you. It's a risk one that requires courage.