To Prove Quotes

It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

I want to prove that he's wrong - he's wearing a t-shirt that says he won the last two fights.

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.

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

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

The exception does not prove the rule.

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

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

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

I like to prove things wrong.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

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.

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.