Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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.

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.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

I am such a scaredy-cat.

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.