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.

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

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions

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

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

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

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