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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Brian Tracy

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

— Joel A. Barker

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

— George Gissing

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

— Hannah Arendt

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

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

— Vaclav Havel

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

— Rachel Cusk

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

— Vaclav Havel

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

— George Noory

✗Opposing Perspectives

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

— Joel C. Rosenberg