What we do to impress others are the very things others find most annoying.

Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

Our necessities never equal our wants

If you are easily inspired by others, then you are most likely trying to impress others.

We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science.