Top 100 Prove Myself Quotes
#1. Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.
Misty Copeland
#2. I'm sympathetic to the nuns' violent impulses. I mean, if I'd given up sex to devote myself to a man who I had to just trust loved me, despite never being physically around to prove it, I'd probably be smacking little children too.
Sarah Silverman
#3. I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
Henry Kravis
#4. I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
Sean Parker
#5. I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane
#6. I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot.
Dean H. Hamer
#7. The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
#9. With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
Jeremy Lin
#10. It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.
Doug Flutie
#11. I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#12. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe
#14. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi
#15. Today I'm going ... but one day I'll back to prove myself, who I'm ...
Adeel Ahmed
#16. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.
Sarah MacLean
#17. You just want me to hold you until you fall asleep?"
I didn't answer.
He shifted to look straight into my eyes. "I should say no to prove a point," he said, his eyebrows pulling together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again.
Jamie McGuire
#18. I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
Gerard Butler
#19. You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.
Bipasha Basu
#20. In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it's a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we've accomplished it, we feel stronger.
Kim Raver
#21. I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.
Renee O'Connor
#22. Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#23. There was never one truth. Even the Higgs could still be used to prove opposing theories, its mass falling between them on a chart. Besides, I told myself, my breathing heavy, eyes widening until they bulged, I was post-truth.
Olivia Sudjic
#24. My philosophy in life ... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.
Columba Bush
#25. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
#26. For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
Jenny Lewis
#27. I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.
Tionne Watkins
#28. I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Barbara Kingsolver
#29. Oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love
not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Ruth Benedict
#30. I was now in a situation where I didn't have to prove myself, because the one person that fully accepted me, my best friend, was now a permanent fixture in my life.
Jamie McGuire
#31. I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
E. Lockhart
#32. I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
Hermann Oberth
#33. I thought that by twenty-eight I could stop trying to prove myself and relax already. But this fight just gets bloodier with age.
Jessica Knoll
#34. I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.
Scarlett Johansson
#35. I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.
John Fowles
#36. I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
Anderson Silva
#37. I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
John Lennon
#38. By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
Eric Bana
#39. I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
Bear Grylls
#40. I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.
Anna Torv
#41. I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
Linda Vester
#42. There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.
Kato Kaelin
#43. I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
Bill Gates
#45. I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.
Henry Cejudo
#47. My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#48. Bellona has answered my prayer. She doesn't fight my battles for me. She doesn't guarantee me easy victory. She grants me opportunities to prove myself. She gives me strong enemies and potential allies.
Rick Riordan
#49. I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
Katherine Waterston
#51. I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
Camilla Lackberg
#52. But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.
Peter Allison
#53. I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Halle Berry
#54. I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.
Clinton Portis
#55. I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?
Leo Tolstoy
#56. I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.
Andruw Jones
#57. I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
Patricia Riggen
#58. I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
Anthony Hopkins
#59. They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.
Tami Hoag
#60. There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it.
Lamar Odom
#61. I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.
Landon Donovan
#63. When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.
Shane Filan
#64. 'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
Charlie Puth
#65. I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.
Alessia Cara
#66. I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.
Kobe Bryant
#67. When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself
Billy Idol
#68. I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
Oscar Isaac
#69. I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.
Kaya Scodelario
#70. I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
Jerry Stiller
#71. I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To "prove" I wasn't a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm's way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.
Christina Enevoldsen
#72. I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.
Ruben Studdard
#73. Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.
Bonnie Friedman
#74. I wanted to prove myself worthy of the girl I loved. I wanted to be able to return and lay not only my heart, but the world, at her feet.
Teresa Medeiros
#75. On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
Ryan Adams
#76. I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Mike Piazza
#77. I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.
Elvis Stojko
#78. I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.
Andrew Luck
#79. I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,
Eileen Collins
#80. I've got my own targets ... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.
Peter Crouch
#81. I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I'll prove myself. You'll be proud of me.
L.J.Smith
#82. I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.
Kid Rock
#83. No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
Katharine O'Shea
#84. I don't need to fight and risk myself just to prove that I am more stronger.
All I need is to show my smile that surely will irritate them.
Nathaniel E. Quimada
#85. I've always been the guy that loved being scared or loved having pressure on me, because I always wanted to prove myself wrong and always wanted to prove that I could do it.
Alex Pettyfer
#86. I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.
Russell Westbrook
#87. I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.
Greg Rusedski
#89. Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.
Megan Mullally
#90. My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
Helen Keller
#91. At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.
Michael Strahan
#92. I'm asking you to give me a chance, however slim, to prove myself."
My throat tightened. "Cade ... I'm not a science experiment."
"Good to know, but I rocked biology. Lab was my favorite," he teased.
"I'm serious."
"So am I.
Beth Mikell
#93. I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.
Giles Matthey
#94. I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.
Manny Pacquiao
#95. I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Sam Claflin
#96. I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
Criss Jami
#97. I don't feel the need to prove myself to others, but to prove myself to myself
Monica Bellucci
#98. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.
Plato
#99. I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
Sean Parker
#100. I was afraid to be Outside alone, without Elijah. But, no matter what, I would have to get used to his absence. I would have to prove to him and to myself that I could.
Laura Bickle
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