Proving Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

  Michael Schumacher

  Motivational, Winning, Race

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

  Johnny Weir

  Writing, Community, Skating

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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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• Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

  Paul Coffey

  Pride, Hockey, Nhl

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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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• By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Fear

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 28, 2014

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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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• Chips on shoulder, all that, everybody plays the game for different reasons. You've got to prove yourself every time you go out there. That's the reality.

  John Fox

  Reality, Games, Play

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• The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ego, Needs, Moments

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 04, 2014

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• It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

  Tina Yothers

  Struggle, Who I Am, People

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• I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Games, Play

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