Prove Myself Quotes - Page 3

• I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

  Michael Johnson

  Husband, Father, Hard Work

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• I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

  Taylor Kitsch

  People, Needs, Myopic

  "No Way But Up". Interview with Ari Karpel, www.menshealth.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Goal, Achievement, Records

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• 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.

  Eddie Marsan

  School, Class, People

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• I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Thinking, Firsts, Chance

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• You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.

  Peter White

  Motivation, Men, Years

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• You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hero, Relax, Doe

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• It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

  Madeline Zima

  Nice, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.

  Justin Cole

  Get Better, Weight, Way

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Winning, Mountain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

  Danny Cipriani

  Want, Rugby, Fitting

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• The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child of my Heavenly Father; that I am here in mortality as part of his great plan for me in order that I may prove my worthiness to him by constantly making the proper choices between good and evil; and that if I prove myself worthy I will return to his presence.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Children, Father, Order

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• I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Writing, Long, Mind

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• With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Media, Play

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• 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.

  Chris Stein

  Math, Profound, Feelings

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• Always do what you're afraid to do.
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  I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
  I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

  E. Lockhart

  Strong, Thinking, Sick

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• At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

  Michael Strahan

  Motivational, Sports, Guy

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• I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

  Terry Fox

  Remember, Should, Prove

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• By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Desire, Way

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• I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.

  J. D. Sedding

  Life, Wise, Art

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• But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

  Jenny Diski

  Thinking, Should Have, Effort

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• I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

  Tom Kristensen

  Humble, Thinking, Japan

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

  Columba Bush

  Children, Philosophy, Life Is

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• No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Roles, Calling, Lawyer

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• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Fighting, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (18??). “Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations”

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