Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.