Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

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.

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.