If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

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.

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

Everything took on the color of blood.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.