Top 1200 Prove Myself Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don't get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue.

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)

I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

I definitely got things to prove and prove people wrong.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look in my father's eyes went from disappointment to respect.

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

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?

I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

I haven't done nothing in this league. Every day I come into practice or come into a game, I'm just trying to prove myself.

I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

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.

I have a singular focus, I'm a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.

Every training I want to prove myself, every practice.

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.

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

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.

You really have to prove yourself and prove your worth. I didn't come from family that had been here for generations and had all these connections.

That mentality that I have every year - that I have to prove myself to everyone that I'm a good player - that's the thing that keeps me going. That's my motivation.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

I want to prove to myself and everybody else how good I can be, and I'm willing to work as hard as I need to to achieve that goal.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

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.

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.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I'm going to go out there and kill it.

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.

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.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I'm always going to have to prove myself. That's the way my life has been, my career has been, and I'm OK with it. I've come to terms with it.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

Everybody has their opinions of what Jeff Green should be or what I can do, but I have to go out there and prove it to myself that I work hard and I put in the work to be in the position I'm in.

At the University of Miami in the U.S., people thought I was there only because I was Bob Marley's son. I had to prove myself on the football field and soon earned the respect of my peers.

He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

It is an honour for me that Mainz gives me the opportunity to prove myself in another top European league.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

I didn't want to come back and be mediocre; I wanted to hang in with the girls, and I wanted to prove myself every week.

The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.

As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali's model. He can say whatever he wants but he's got to prove it. If he doesn't prove it, his career is going to be short.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.