Tell Me I Can't And I Will Prove You Wrong Quotes

#1. Sir, your baseball career may be over. You need to find a new profession. Gatewood answered, I've heard that before. (He had always come back. He would prove them wrong again.) (From Love and Death at the Encierro)

Hal Graff

#2. Everyone thinks I'm a coward. This is my chance to prove them wrong." "Don't throw your life away because of a few jokes made at your expense," said Hugh. "Who gives a whit what anyone else thinks?

Ransom Riggs

#3. Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

Kid Rock

#5. You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.

Steve Prefontaine

#6. We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

Baba Kalyani

#7. We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

Bill W.

#8. Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Muhammad Ali

#9. What is the best thing about people doubting your potential?
The pleasure of proving them wrong.

Ameya Agrawal

#10. Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

Michael Jordan

#11. The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught

John Verdon

#12. I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Roger Ebert

#13. I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

Mark Teixeira

#14. You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.

Mirinda Carfrae

#15. We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman

#16. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He

Iain M. Banks

#17. Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

Mario Andretti

#18. Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Timothy Radcliffe

#19. Negative people are great motivators because they make you determined to prove them wrong.

Marie Guillaume

#20. Aunt Joan broke her hip a few years back. Don't get me wrong, she's still pretty damn fierce. Lightning fast with her cane, in fact. I've got the scars to prove it.

Victoria Schwab

#21. Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

John Higgins

#22. 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

#23. The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

Peter Singer

#24. Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

Ellen Key

#25. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ha-Joon Chang

#26. I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#27. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#28. Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Richard P. Feynman

#29. I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

Marcus Giles

#30. There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance ... People who survive through the tears ... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them.

Steve Maraboli

#31. Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

Ashleigh Brilliant

#32. Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.

Katina Ferguson

#33. Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Charles E. McKenzie

#34. I am so proud of you, Flame," she whispered, and I felt my chest get tight again. "Just when I believe I could not love you even more, you go and prove me wrong." "I love you too," I said and kissed her head.

Tillie Cole

#35. Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

A.O. Scott

#36. Every time I see you," he murmured, "I think you couldn't possibly become any more beautiful - and you always prove me wrong.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

Anne Bradstreet

#38. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.

Eckhart Tolle

#39. Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Tom Hiddleston

#40. In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Thomas Merton

#41. 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

#42. I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

David Paterson

#43. One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

Tim LaHaye

#44. The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

Pema Chodron

#45. The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

John Bruton

#46. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Robin McKinley

#47. Psychics. I love to prove you wrong.

Jim Pascoe

#48. CHALLENGE -
Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong

Kamil Ali

#49. If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#50. Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.

Victoria Schwab

#51. I want to prove that he's wrong - he's wearing a t-shirt that says he won the last two fights.

Manny Pacquiao

#52. Unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced that can prove you are wrong. That is why I won't write a book [Lionel Logue concluded]

Mark Logue

#53. He'd done nothing wrong, and to prove it, I used all of my strength to pull him back on top of me. Kale lost his balance, but turned just in time and landed half on me, half on the couch. I smiled and pulled his head down to mine for a kiss he returned with urgency

Inger Iversen

#54. Any kind of love where you have to prove yourself to be worthy is the wrong kind.

Cora Carmack

#55. Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

Caroline Leavitt

#56. There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

Mitch Kapor

#57. I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

Lindi Ortega

#58. Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

James Branch Cabell

#59. 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

#60. I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.

Ice Cube

#61. I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

Salman Rushdie

#62. People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

Lysa TerKeurst

#63. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

Tony Dorsett

#64. The right people love you and they will prove it by supporting you, the wrong people don't care about you and they will prove it by hurting you. Don't be with the wrong people, be smart?

Werley Nortreus

#65. Nature, you always think she won't get any better, but she proves you wrong, again and again. She will prove you wrong until you take your leave, and then she will continue to work her charms on the humans who follow.

Nishanth Anchan K.N.

#66. Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.

Carlos Wallace

#67. I like to prove things wrong.

Millard Drexler

#68. I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Samuel Johnson

#69. 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

#70. To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Aldous Huxley

#71. Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

Patrick MacGill

#72. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#73. Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented - challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

David Allen

#74. And you plan to prove me wrong?" "I'll let you judge that for yourself.

Heather Killough-Walden

#75. When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

Sophocles

#76. All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

Cathy Guisewite

#77. Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins

Frank Giampaolo

#78. We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good.

Steve Spurrier

#79. That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

Robert Griffin III

#80. Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

Layne Beachley

#81. Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

Mark Hoppus

#82. Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Sting

#83. I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.

Tyson Fury

#84. Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

#85. I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown."

Laura Bell Bundy

#86. There's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of public to believe that we might prove this wrong.

Stephen Hawking

#87. I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Mark Falcoff

#88. I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?

George Karl

#89. You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

Charlie Ergen

#90. Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle.

Dale Carnegie

#91. It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

Molly Ivins

#92. The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

Pink

#93. If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Oscar Wilde

#94. Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong.

Debasish Mridha

#95. What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Josh Billings

#96. I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter ... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#97. Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Mary Balogh

#98. Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

Nicole Polizzi

#99. When that time come, nobody will care for each other.
You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy.

Toba Beta

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

Robert Heller