Accuracy Quote by Paul Watzlawick

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Denis Waitley

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…

— Lawrence Reed

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

— Howard Zinn

...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

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…

— Robert K. Merton

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

— Ruth Hubbard

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

— Brian Tracy

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

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

— Joseph Farah

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

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

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls