It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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 love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

I am the president now, the president of everybody.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.