Quotes About Self Fulfilling Prophecy

#1. Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard

#2. Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win," and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

James C. Dobson

#3. Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism, and negativity. Faith is always, finally, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Faith actually begins to create what it desires. Faith always recreates the good world.

Richard Rohr

#4. The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sharon Weil

#5. I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

Roopleen

#7. Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jeannette Walls

#8. We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

Lawrence Reed

#10. The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

Bill Maher

#11. Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

Vironika Tugaleva

#12. Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

Denis Waitley

#13. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sam Walton

#14. I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.

Todd Rundgren

#15. They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
Tell me when do we stop it?
Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

Talib Kweli

#16. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

#17. You can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Raymond Khoury

#18. I opened my mouth and projectile-vomited on her from head to toe. The more I retched, the more I had to retch. It was a disgusting self-fulfilling prophecy. Her howls and screeches were music to my indebted ears. Her hair was covered and her net top held my gift beautifully.

Robyn Peterman

#19. When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

Feist

#20. Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Howard Zinn

#22. People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tony Robbins

#23. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tim Kimmel

#24. Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

#25. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#26. The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

Robert Anthony

#27. A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laura Beck

#28. It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way - a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Suzanne Young

#29. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Paul Graham

#30. Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Karen Marie Moning

#31. The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

Dennis Kucinich

#32. A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

Vandana Shiva

#33. Oppression has no logic
just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Gloria Steinem

#34. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.

Bobby Darnell

#35. My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

#36. If I say, "I am weak," I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, "I cannot," "I'm not the type to," "I am not able," then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Vironika Tugaleva

#37. Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

Aberjhani

#38. It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This ... rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

Frank Herbert

#39. I've learned a lot about perspective, about appreciating when you're healthy, the things that you have. I decided I was a super healer. I really believe in self-fulfilling prophecy that you are what you think you are.

Simon Whitfield

#40. Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Joseph Farah

#41. It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

Brian Dunkleman

#42. The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Mark Victor Hansen

#43. Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Neal Stephenson

#44. Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#45. Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Felicia Day

#46. When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

Arnold Kling

#47. If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#48. If you think you'll always let people down, that's all you'll ever do, I said.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#49. In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.

David Brin

#50. As your lover describes you, so you are.

Jeanette Winterson

#51. The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.

Neville Goddard