Proving Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Strong, Fighting, Opponents

  "Sharon’s Last Option" by Martin Van Creveld, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Wife, Want

  "No wedding bells for Britney's little sis" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 12, 2008.

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• Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have forgotten — and to ensure that you always remember — God is for you. I can’t promise that God will always give you the answer you want. I can’t promise that He’ll answer on your timeline. But I can promise this: He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise. That is who He is. That is what He does.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Opportunity, Circles

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Ambition, Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Attention, Helping

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• My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

  Fiona Apple

  Careers, Records, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

  Joan Allen

  Shy, Not Sure, Prove

  "The passion project". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2005.

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• You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to keep going, and you have a greater drive than other people - who may be more happy and balanced in life - because you have to keep going out and proving yourself over and over again.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  People, Needs, Going Out

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That's something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you've got to pay up. You've got to prove yourself. And that's exhausting.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.

  Molly Shannon

  Thinking, Feelings, Kind

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Letting Go, Who I Am, Rejection

  "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.

  Malin Akerman

  Choices, Roles, Able

  "Malin Akerman Exclusive Interview HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2011.

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• When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

  Andre Ethier

  Team, Player, Numbers

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• Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

  Bob Bergen

  Player, Foxes, Needs

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Determination, Thinking, Actors

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• If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.

  Martha Wainwright

  Mean, Hard Times, Years

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

  Rita Dove

  Mother, Children, Book

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
  Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Winning, Simple, Soul

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• Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

  Marc Bulger

  Playoffs, Prove

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• You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, Earth, Purpose

  "Finding Joy in Life". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 1996.

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• You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Hard Work, Choices, Understanding

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you. . . some blessings will be delivered in this life; others will come beyond the veil. The Lord is intent on your personal growth and development. That progress is accelerated when you willingly allow Him to lead you through every growth experience you encounter, whether initially it be to your individual liking or not.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, Growth, Progress

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• There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Lying, People

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.864, Dell

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• Don’t concentrate on what you don’t have or have lost. The Lord promised the obedient to share all that He possesses with them. You may temporarily lack here, but in the next life, if you prove yourself worthy by living valiantly, a fulness will be your blessing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, May, Next

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