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«We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.»
«The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.»
«The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.»
«Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.»
Author: Nellie Mcclung | Keywords: all women, low
«Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!»
«The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it»
«Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.»
«The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high»

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