To Prove Quotes

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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?

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

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.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

An injury may prove a blessing.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Little friends may prove great friends.

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

It's not easy to trust in a God you can't see. That's why so many want God to prove himself so we can trust him. In reality, God wants us to trust him so he can prove himself.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that.

Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.