In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

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.

You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.