Albert Bandura Quotes

Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.

What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.

I'm a very objective-driven bloke, so to have a goal in mind and to have something to do is very important to me.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

You never want to be behind your team-mate at the end of the year, that's definitely always going to be my goal.

Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit... But commitment always precedes achievement.

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

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.

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

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.