Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

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.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God

Do not waste your life over working.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

Drink down all unkindness.