internalize
verb (used with object)
to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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I hope that by then they will have internalized my values.
From Time Magazine Archive
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