Quotes About Not Proving Yourself

#1. If you are not proving yourself, you are proving yourself!

Ananya Dwivedi

#2. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#3. The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

Lisa Wingate

#4. Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

Kenneth Appel

#5. while it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China - proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

Neal Shusterman

#6. 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

#7. He was a man's man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike, taming the wilderness, proving their worth with bulging sinews and roaring guns.

Jordan L. Hawk

#8. You own every piece of me, Cadence Taylor, and if you let me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving to you that you're the only thing left worth fighting for.

Melyssa Winchester

#9. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

Yo-Yo Ma

#11. Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. I'm a man who likes to take control, Cynda, but I don't object to proving I deserve to be in control of a woman's body.

Eden Connor

#13. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#14. Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Josh Billings

#15. It is not about proving anything to the world.
It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries.

Manoj Arora

#16. I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

George Ratliff

#17. The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#18. No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Robert Heller

#19. Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.

Vikrmn

#20. It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Daniel Radcliffe

#21. Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Marc Bulger

#22. No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

Haifaa Al-Mansour

#23. Thus proving that dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. Does wearing a glass slipper lead to a comfortable life? If everything you touch turns into marshmallows, won't that make things a bit ... sticky?

Terry Pratchett

#24. At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.

Neal Stephenson

#25. Life is always a series of encounters that demand you prove your love.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.

Franz Kafka

#27. A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Harold Davenport

#28. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.

Gillian Flynn

#29. In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Claude Bernard

#30. The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

#31. I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Jeremy Scott

#32. In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

John Tukey

#33. I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jesse Ventura

#34. You don't have to prove yourself to me. You don't even have to prove yourself to you.

Susan Atkins

#35. Every time we prove a positive, we simultaneously prove an infinite number of negatives. Therefore, it is erroneous to declare that we can't prove a negative.

G.M. Jackson

#36. The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

Calvin Harris

#37. Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Frederick Lenz

#38. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Thomas A. Edison

#39. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Mary Baker Eddy

#40. To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples ...

John B. Conway

#41. Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#42. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Brene Brown