Albert Bandura 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.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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

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 who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

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.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

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 and suffering the consequences.

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

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

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