We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so…

Quote by Albert Bandura

Topics: Beliefs Quotes, Success Quotes

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on...

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on...

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their...

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their...

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience...

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience...

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based...

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based...

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive...

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive...

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable...

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable...

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but...

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but...

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

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

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive...

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive...

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to...

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to...

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our...

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our...

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which...

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.