Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. — Les Brown
You become what you believe. — Oprah Winfrey
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn
You become what you envision yourself being. — Lewis Howes
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. — James Lane Allen
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagine what you will be, and it will be so. — Russell Crowe
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. — Brian Tracy
What you think, so you will become. — Napoleon Hill
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Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
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If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. — John Glenn
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment. — John F. MacArthur
We are what we believe we are.
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. — Nelson Mandela
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. — Tony Robbins
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. — Burton Hill
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
If you're going to overdose on anything, overdose on getting better. It's one of the greatest natural highs of life. — Patrick Bet-David
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
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?" — Tony Buzan
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
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
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
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? — Jodi Picoult
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life. — Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Robert Eastaway
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn
Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Jeannette Walls
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
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
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
The soft bigotry of low expectations — Michael Gerson
We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality. — Garry Kasparov
The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy — Bill Maher
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
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
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
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 same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined. — Benjamin Wiker
Life is self-fulfilling prophecy. — Denis Waitley
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
Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Karen Marie Moning
...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
Andrew Creighton, who ran Europe for us and who now runs the company day-to-day, would always go to the people he would hire and say, "Look, I don't know what it is, but whatever this guy says comes true because he's got some sort of weird self-fulfilling-prophecy thing." And that's exactly right. The reason I was so bombastic or whatever was because you have to believe it. — Shane Smith
Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Pipilotti Rist
For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare for war. As if anything said in ancient times must be wise, people have used this phrase to justify some of the most unjustifiable arms build-ups, which, far from creating peace, has only become a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Oscar Arias
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Ted Nordhaus
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
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
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 interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy. — Robert Reich
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
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us. — Huey Newton
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
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