[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Ruth Hubbard

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

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

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

— Gloria Steinem

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

...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

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Joseph Farah

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

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

— Howard Zinn

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…

— Mark Victor Hansen

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…

— Feist

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Ted Nordhaus