Self Fulfilling Prophecy Quotes

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Agreement

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.142, Morgan James Publishing

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• The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Errors, Self

  "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)

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• 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

  Self, Events, Causes

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

  Ruth Hubbard

  Self, Order, Framework

  Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

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• 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

  Self, Law, Expectations

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• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, Self

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• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Self, Expectations

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Motivational, Mean

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Self, Library

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, Judgment

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• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Worry, Tasks

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

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, Self, Life Is

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Children, Future

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Casting

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• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Believe, Bridges, Self

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• Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

  Denis Waitley

  Running, Real, Winning

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• Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Denis Waitley

  Self, Life Is, Prophecy

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• 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

  War, Self, Vision

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• 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

  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

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• Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Encouragement, Real, Self

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Self, Logic, Oppression

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.179, Open Road Media

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

  Howard Zinn

  Fear, Self, Pessimism

  Howard Zinn (1994). “You can't be neutral on a moving train: a personal history of our times”, Beacon Press (MA)

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