Albert Bandura Quotes

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

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.

I doubted myself for a long time.

I'd be lying if I said there weren't times when I hadn't lost a little bit of confidence. But the people around me, close to me, were the ones to tell me I'd been playing slightly differently, not as confidently as I had been.

A player playing with confidence is better than a player playing with doubt in his head.

I feel like I can make every throw.

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.

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.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.