All Albert Bandura Quotes
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those… Ability
- 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. Efficacy
- Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options… Actually Performing
- Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. Accomplishment
- 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… Countless
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This… Acceptable
- If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. Any
- By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. Adversity
- Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. Action
- Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. Action
- A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. Action
- People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. Alter
- Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. Assuredly
- We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success. Failure
- Once established, reputations do not easily change. Change
- People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. Approach
- One cannot afford to be a realist. Afford
- 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… Action
- People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Abilities
- 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. Cannot Tell
- Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them… Action
- 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… Attention
- Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. Better
- If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. Behave
- The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time. Content