To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It…

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…

— Denis Waitley

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

— Francis Marion Crawford

“On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.”

— Akira Toriyama

“NO ONE CAN DEFEAT YOU EXCEPT YOUR SELF-IGNORANCE.”

— Seema Brain Openers

If you expect defeat, that's what you will get, instead free your mind of negativity, so the impossible can become possible.

— Anonymous

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on…

— Huey Newton

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

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…

— Paul Watzlawick

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a…

— Tony Buzan

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the…

— Benjamin Wiker

If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed…

— Robert Reich

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Denis Waitley

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…

— Arnold Kling