[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

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.

I decided that it wasn’t pretty that I felt, but confident.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.