Proving Yourself Quotes

• Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

  Richard E. Grant

  Challenges, Ongoing, Fields

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• Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, People, Trying

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• Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

  Amy Chua

  Complaining, Excuse, Unfair

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Problem, Prove

  "Sharon’s Last Option". Interview with Jennifer Byrne, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

  Chester Bennington

  Trying, Made, Prove

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

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• Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Giving, Needs, Chance

  Charles Henry Fowler, William Harrison De Puy (1879). “Home and Health and Home Economics: A Cyclopedia of Facts and Hints for All Departments of Home Life, Health, and Domestic Economy”

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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Inspirational, Life, Revenge

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014

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• If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Roots, Supportive

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 20, 2015

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• We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.

  Eve Ensler

  Talking, Knowing, Identity

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

  Grant Hill

  Sports, Great Things, Prove

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• You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Mean, Caring, Unique

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• 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

  Leadership, Wisdom, Believe

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• It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

  Wes Fesler

  People, Waiting, Punctuality

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• That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

  Lisa Bonet

  Daughter, Mother, Love Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

  Alice Hoffman

  Worthy, Prove

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.

  Clive Owen

  People, Acting, Actors

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

  Miranda Otto

  Fighting, Careers, Acting

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• To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  God, Mean, Unique

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• For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, People, Achievement

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• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Ike Turner

  Confidence, Tired, Fighting

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• Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Night, Ice

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• The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.

  A. J. Hawk

  Team, Mean, Responsibility

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• I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you're more than just that one song on the radio that's just playing. And that's what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Going Out, Radio

  "Bruno Mars: A Q&A with the artist about new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.csmonitor.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.

  Jonas Hiller

  Giving Up, Night, Talking

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