Best Prove Myself Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.”

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Author:Camilla Lackberg

“I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.”

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Author:Sean Parker

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.”

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Author:Anna Torv

“I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.”

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Author:Tionne Watkins

“I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.”

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Author:Greg Rusedski

“I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'”

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Author:Joe Frazier

“We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.”

Source: Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations

“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.”

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Author:Gillian Anderson

“When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.”

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Author:Pierre Cardin

“I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.”

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Author:Yingluck Shinawatra

“I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.”

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Author:Andrew Luck

“I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.”

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Book:Musashi

Source: Musashi

“... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.”

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Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.”

“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?"”

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Author:Taraji P. Henson

“The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.”

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Author:Anjelica Huston

“I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.”

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Author:Trevor Noah

“I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.”

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Author:Michael Johnson

“I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.”

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Author:Cameron Diaz

“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.”

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Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.”

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.”

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Author:Clinton Portis

“There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.”

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Author:Kato Kaelin

“Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.”

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Author:Giles Matthey

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

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Author:Madeline Zima

“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.”

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Author:Madeline Zima

“You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.”

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Author:Bipasha Basu

“You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.”

“I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'”

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Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.”

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Author:Eddie Marsan

“I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.”

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Author:Justin Cole

“I obviously love those characters ['The Avengers'] with my whole heart. I was on a one-man "Luke Cage is cool" campaign for most of the Aughts. When we announced the New Avengers line-up, and Luke Cage and Spider-Woman were there, a lot of fans went, "WHAT?!?!?! Bulls--t!" And I had to prove myself. They were right: I can't just announce they're cool. What's less cool than that? I have to show that they're cool! But this is way farther than I ever thought it would go.”

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Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.”

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Author:Usain Bolt

“At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.”

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Author:James Redford

“Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.”

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Author:Shakira

“Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.”

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Author:Jack Kemp

“I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.”

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Author:John Lydon

“I am still here because I like to prove myself. I still like to ride the bike on track and enjoy the races. I still have good reasons to be in racing after so many years.”

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Author:Valentino Rossi

“I rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized there is always something I could be doing. Whenever I have free time, I love using that time to improve myself in different ways. If you think about it, there are tons of things we still don't know much about.”

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Author:Bethany Mota

“I think I'm just now startin' to get to the point where fans are startin' to respect my grind, and respect my lyrics and things that I'm gettin' into, and they see the hunger in me, and they know that I wanna become the best, and I'm just tryin' to prove myself. I feel like it would be a letdown if I stopped now.”

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Author:Bow Wow

“At a certain point I became really frustrated with modeling, like, why do I have to go home after school and get dressed up and put makeup on my face, and then go to a photographer's studio where there's 15 other girls with their books and have to prove myself? A lot of people don't think of it that way, but modeling's a hard job, physically and emotionally.”

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Author:Liv Tyler

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