People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

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.

He starts kissing my back and I shiver.” —Sofia Herrera (Exposed, Unbearable Passion, #3)

You cannot give what you don't have

Smile ..... Expand HappinesS.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.