Top 100 Prove Something Quotes
#1. When you're a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you're just hoping that they're happy you were cast.
Andrea Gabriel
#2. So if you want to prove something, it shows that you are doubtful about it. You want to destroy your doubt through others' eyes, through their opinions.
Osho
#3. Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
Joe Manganiello
#4. One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan
#5. I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Howard Stern
#6. You don't have to prove something to feel it, to know it exists.
Ally Broadfield
#7. Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.
Mark Suster
#8. That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.
Ernest J. Gaines
#9. After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. "These nicknames are pissing me off."
"But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is."
"It's my damn name. And now I have to pee. It's like my bladder has to prove something."
"Pee at the bank. Consider it a deposit.
J.D. Robb
#10. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan
#11. In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
Jet Li
#12. I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.
Bo Burnham
#13. 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
#14. I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.
Henry Rollins
#15. If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world,
then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.
Toba Beta
#16. If rise of sun from east and fall in the west is the indicator of God's existence; my standing dick every morning might also prove something.
M.F. Moonzajer
#17. I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.
Kobe Bryant
#19. You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.
Derrick Jensen
#20. 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
#21. I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Mike Piazza
#23. I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.
Casey Neistat
#24. It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something
Lauren Conrad
#25. Being Tigerstar's son has meant I've had to win the trust of every ThunderClan cat over and over. So I know how frustrating it is when you have to prove something that shouldn't need proving.
Erin Hunter
#26. Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.
Joe Meno
#27. Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
Bobby Fischer
#28. I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.
Jaromir Jagr
#29. Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.
Iyanla Vanzant
#30. Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.
Lou Ferrigno
#31. As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.
Holly Hood
#32. But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.
Nelson DeMille
#33. I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
Kate Winslet
#34. That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
Umberto Eco
#35. It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.
Emraan Hashmi
#37. She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to prove something. She touched my hand like she was glad to see me, not like she wanted to break bones.
Sherman Alexie
#38. When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.
Rodney Dangerfield
#39. This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.
Alan Cromer
#40. I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.
Rick Allen
#41. I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.
Julius Peppers
#42. We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#43. Eagerly wanted to prove something
is one sign of lack of self-dependence.
Toba Beta
#44. But some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.
Wiley Cash
#46. It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Charles De Lint
#47. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Walt Whitman
#48. I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.
Louis MacNeice
#49. I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.
Bobby Brown
#50. [There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.
Anne Frank
#51. The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#52. If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.
Reggie Lewis
#53. I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
Ani DiFranco
#54. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#55. You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.
Christina Daley
#56. 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
#57. You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.
Carolyn Crane
#58. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist.
Tina Fey
#59. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.
Marlon James
#60. Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
Andy Murray
#61. He'd never prove it, and if he did there'd be nothing he could do about it. But it would be true, and that was something.
Nick Harkaway
#62. Faith is not something we have to prove but something we have to share and explain to others.
Osunsakin Adewale
#64. I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
Joe Frazier
#65. I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Diane Lane
#66. To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.
Simon Ramo
#67. I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#68. I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.
Tom Selleck
#69. I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
#70. Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.
Cary Carson
#71. Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.
Josh Smith
#72. He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.
Warren Ellis
#73. I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really ... spectacular.
Charlotte McKinney
#74. Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.
Umberto Eco
#75. The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.
Richard Dawkins
#76. Why did she make him want to do something, say something, to prove that he was worthy of her? She was just a woman. A beautiful, messy, perfect, flawed, sexy, sweet woman he couldn't seem to get out of his system no matter how much he tried.
Karen Erickson
#77. The point is, you should have stayed right where you were and let us handle this. Now we're going to have to tie up your uncle and put him in one of the cells or something until we sort out everything and can prove your innocence.
Lynsay Sands
#78. Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.
Mitch Albom
#79. Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
Jack Kerouac
#80. I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.
Jamie Moyer
#81. Well, when you wonder something," said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe.
V.E Schwab
#82. Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.
Paul Gallico
#83. Since politicians and bureaucrats can rarely sign real contracts, the best way to prove you'll do something later is to do it now
Garett Jones
#84. A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.
David Stove
#85. Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself - something you cannot prove for certain.
Seth Adam Smith
#86. People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation.
Ron Baratono
#87. You know, most people trust people until the person does something to prove that they're not trustworthy. Can you try that?"
"Not a chance. That is like trying potentially poisonous food and being shocked while you take your last breath.
Emma McCoy
#88. That was something, wasn't it? Trust was a good place to start. Especially after the kind of betrayal she'd been through. It made him want to prove he was the kind of man she deserved. The kind of man who'd love her for better or worse. The kind who was faithful and true.
Denise Hunter
#89. That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
Patrick Kane
#90. I love it when people say that something can't be done. That's when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#91. If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.
Sukant Ratnakar
#92. Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Henry Ford
#93. Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed all on our behalf.
Mark W. Boyer
#94. A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?
Andrei Tarkovsky
#95. Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive.
Alexander McCall Smith
#96. To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
John Stuart Mill
#97. Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.
Behdad Sami
#98. There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?
Gerard Verschuuren
#99. In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
Helena Christensen
#100. The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.
Dwyane Wade
