People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

- Albert Bandura

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

- Albert Bandura

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

- Albert Bandura

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social chang…

- Albert Bandura

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than th…

- Albert Bandura

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

- Albert Bandura

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their tho…

- Albert Bandura

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 wh…

- Albert Bandura

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

- Albert Bandura