Wanted To Prove Something Quotes

#1. Eagerly wanted to prove something
is one sign of lack of self-dependence.

Toba Beta

#2. I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.

Kobe Bryant

#3. Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

Eric Butterworth

#4. That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Dennis Eckersley

#5. 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

#6. You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

Brett Favre

#7. I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top ... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

Ndamukong Suh

#8. We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

Sete Gibernau

#9. What mental hospital have you escaped from?" She wanted to laugh, but he looked so serious. "Prove you're an alien. Rip off your disguise. Show me your antennae. Where's your union card?

Cheryl Sterling

#10. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

#11. There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat.

Gordon Dahlquist

#12. I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

Jesse Metcalfe

#13. I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

Bernard Hopkins

#14. There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

Baba Kalyani

#15. That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.

Rachel Caine

#16. I desperately wanted a chance to prove myself. Not because I cared a fart for druids. No. I had instead conceived a new plan for escape.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#17. The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

Nick Hornby

#18. I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

Gianluca Basile

#19. I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong ...

Georges Braque

#20. ... I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.

Louisa May Alcott

#21. He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.

Markus Zusak

#22. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Luc Besson

#23. Nowadays we are fond of literal translations ... That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past ... They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original.

Jorge Luis Borges

#24. I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Sunil Mittal

#25. He was going to trust her to be his if she could prove to him that she was his, that she wanted to be his, completely.

Pepper Winters

#26. 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

#27. I wanted him to prove it could be done.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. I wanted so desperately to prove that I was right, even though all of my efforts were obviously self-sabotaging.

Wayne W. Dyer

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#32. 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

#33. I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Haruki Murakami

#34. 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

#35. I told her it (sex) was beautiful. I wanted to prove it to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing. She sighed in the dark.

Jack Kerouac

#36. He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.

Colum McCann

#37. 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

#38. Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

Willie Nelson

#39. I needed him to claim me to others as completely as he'd claimed me in private. I needed to prove I could be his in the way he wanted me to be.

Laurelin Paige

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.

Bear Grylls

#43. I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Linda Vester

#44. That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!

Arnold Palmer

#45. And I, being a possessive caveman, wanted to prove a point. You're mine.

Jasinda Wilder

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.

Harvey Pekar

#49. I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.

Hayley Williams

#50. We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

Anthony Davis

#51. 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

#52. 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