Albert Bandura Quotes

The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

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

You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

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

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.