Self Efficacy Quotes:

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, Reactions, Self Efficacy, Appraisal

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

- Albert Bandura

topic: Development, May, Self Efficacy

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Adequacy, Standards, Self Efficacy

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

- Albert Bandura

topic: Outcomes, Influence, Self Efficacy

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Outcomes, Behavior, Self Efficacy

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

topic: Fear, Struggle, Self, Efficacy, Resiliency

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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

topic: Positive, Strength, Inspiring, Non Violence, Confidence In Yourself

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

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, Doe, Belief, Efficacy, Spawn

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

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

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

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

topic: Adversity, People, Tough Times, Efficacy, Sticking It

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

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Belief, Action, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

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

topic: Good Quality, Self Efficacy

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, People, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, People, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

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

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

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Way, Efficacy, Perceived Self, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Expectations, Outcomes, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

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

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

topic: Perspective, Trying, Outlook, Detrimental, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Reflection, Thinking, People, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Views, People, Achievement, Self Efficacy

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

topic: Strong, Effort, Attention, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

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

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

topic: Thinking, Self, Might, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

topic: Doe, Action, Behavior, Human Behavior, Self Efficacy

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

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

topic: Exercise, People, Effort, Misgivings, Self Efficacy

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

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Skills, Doubt, Self-doubt, Adept

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

topic: Accomplishment, Criteria, Ill, Sense Of Accomplishment, Self Efficacy

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Reputation, Self Efficacy

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

topic: Self, People, Coping, Self Efficacy, Assured

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

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Belief, Action, Social, Self Efficacy

Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Views, Skills, Demoralizing, Self Efficacy

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, People, Degrees, Self Efficacy

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Boost, Efficacy, Perceived Self, Self Efficacy

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, May, Tasks, Incongruity, Misperception

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: People, Effort, Littles, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, People, Influence, Attribution, Perceived Self

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Children, Information, Matter, Efficacy, Self Efficacy

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

- Albert Bandura

topic: Children, Self, Attributes, Attribution, Perceived Self

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 will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

- Albert Bandura

topic: Assessment, Self, Yield, Defective, Perceived Self

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Mind, Enlightenment, Events, Self Efficacy

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 consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm

- Albert Bandura

topic: Successful, Irreparable Harm, People, Appraisal, Self Efficacy

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 information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, People, Effort, Appraisal, Self Efficacy

In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Different, Patterns, Self Efficacy

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

- Albert Bandura

topic: Hard Work, Self, People, Minimal Effort, Difficult Tasks

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self Esteem, Insecure, People, Self Efficacy

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Past, Self, Skills, Self Efficacy

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

- Albert Bandura

topic: Adequacy, Judgment, Social, Self Efficacy

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Reality, People, Different, Different Realities, Self Efficacy

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

- Albert Bandura

topic: Emotional, Impact, Expectations, Self Efficacy

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Discovery, Self, Belief, Self Efficacy

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

- Albert Bandura

topic: Past, Ideas, People, Self Efficacy

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, Achievement, Notable, Self Efficacy

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Self, Information, Source, Self Efficacy

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

- Albert Bandura

topic: Discrepancies Between, Self, Tasks, Efficacy, Discrepancies

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

- Albert Bandura

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

topic: Sibling, Self, Choices, Self Efficacy