Capability Quote by Albert Bandura

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

— Tony Robbins

After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By…

— Albert Bandura

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or…

— Albert Bandura

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack…

— Albert Bandura

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities…

— Albert Bandura

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future,…

— Albert Bandura

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

— Albert Bandura

Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have…

— Albert Bandura

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying…

— Albert Bandura