Albert Bandura

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 is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

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

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

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

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

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

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

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 life.

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.