Self Efficacy Quotes

• 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.

  Albert Bandura

  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Doe, Belief

  "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.

  Albert Bandura

  Adversity, People, Tough Times

  "Self-Efficacy". web.stanford.edu. 1994.

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• Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Belief, Action

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• Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Self Confidence, Pride

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• People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

  Albert Bandura

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Efficacy

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• 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.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Way, Efficacy

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Expectations, Outcomes

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• The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

  Albert Bandura

  Perspective, Trying, Outlook

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

  Albert Bandura

  Reflection, Thinking, People

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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

  Albert Bandura

  Views, People, Achievement

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.

  Albert Bandura

  Strong, Effort, Attention

  "Self-efficacy Mechanism in Human Agency". American Psychologist, Volume 37, No. 2, February 1982.

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• Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, Self, Might

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  Albert Bandura

  Doe, Action, Behavior

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.

  Albert Bandura

  Exercise, People, Effort

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Doubt

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• Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

  Albert Bandura

  Accomplishment, Criteria, Ill

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Once established, reputations do not easily change.

  Albert Bandura

  Reputation

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Coping

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• Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Reactions, Appraisal

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

  Albert Bandura

  Belief, Action, Social

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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