belief in one's abilities Quotes

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities