When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

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.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

One cannot afford to be a realist.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

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