To Prove Quotes

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

I haven't prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I think every year you have something to prove.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

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

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

I just look at what's the most fun thing I can do next. I'm not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to break away. I feel so lucky, honestly, that I'm still working.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

It should be a law. Everybody should legally own a gun. In fact, if you're caught outside your house without your gun, you get a ticket. And you get shot in the leg. Just to prove my point.

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.