Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

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.

You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.