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.

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

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

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

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

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