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“In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.”

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.”

People Should Mind Real Self Moving Consciousness Environment Awareness Objects Conscious Yoga Independent Surroundings Attainment Meditating

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.”

Self Seems Earth Law Nations Generations Independent Perceive Evident 4th Of July Laws Of Nature

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.”

People Way Ideas Self Facts Water Nature Animal Fiction Absolutes Independent Acknowledge Sunlight Bees Indulgence Dew Reciprocal Absolute Freedom

Author:Peter Coyote

“Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves”

Knows Self Values Independent Breathe Over You

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.”

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Author:Kelly Lin

“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.”

“Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.”

People Self Opinion Independent Independence

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.”

“Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.”

Humans Self Helping Reality Interest Human Beings Views Education Students Gains Independent Relate Reality Of Life Self Reliant

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.”

Self Individual Lines Accepting Roles Thousand Behavior Respect Independent Individuality Self Respect Rescue Disposition Wreckage

Author:Jeannette Rankin

“We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.”

Self Nations Interest Independent Trade Denied Commerce Evident

Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision

“Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.”

People Self Would Be Independent Libertarian Defined Collectives Association Counterproductive Self Reliant Anachronism

Author:John Dewey

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”

Men Doe Self Life Is Water Born Loses Society Identity Development Ocean Independent Drop Of Water

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”

“I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.”

“Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.”

“God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.”

Humans Made Self United Members Independent Dedication Human Family Assisting

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.”

Self Nations Citizens Respect Independent Independence Citizenship Autonomous World Citizen Internal Peace

Author:Vaclav Havel

“India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.”

World Self Country Dream Young Strong Nations Mankind Fronts India Independent Self Reliant Strong Independent

Book:Rajiv Gandhi and Parliament

Source: Rajiv Gandhi and Parliament

“The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire”

Self Desire Divine Independent

Book:The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

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