Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... … - Stephen Covey

Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.

Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives straight.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values — carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction — what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.