quotes about Prove
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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
-- Afrojack -
A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
-- Aimee Mullins -
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I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.
-- Althea Gibson -
The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.
-- Amber SealeySource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
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Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.
-- Andie MacDowellSource : "Actress Andie MacDowell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 16, 2010.
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I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.
-- Anna Torv -
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
-- Aristotle -
We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
-- Baroness Orczy -
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
-- Ben Stein -
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I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
-- Bertrand Russell -
God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.
-- Beth Moore -
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
-- Bill Joy -
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
-- Bill Joy -
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If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve
-- Billy Donovan -
I'm going to prove the impossible really exists
-- BjorkSource : Song: Cover Me, Album: Post, 1995
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Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right
-- Charles Duhigg -
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I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.
-- Conor McGregor -
The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.
-- Dalai Lama -
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
-- Daniel BerriganSource : Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.
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It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
-- Daniel Handler -
The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.
-- David C.H. Austin -
If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.
-- David Schmidtz -
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
-- Denzel WashingtonSource : "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.
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I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.
-- Diana Krall -
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
-- Diane Lane -
I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
-- Drew BarrymoreSource : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.
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There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.
-- Drew Brees -
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The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.
-- Dwyane Wade -
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
-- E. B. White -
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
-- E. L. KonigsburgSource : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.43, Pushkin Press
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Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
-- Eddie Trunk -
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
-- Edward NortonSource : "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.
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At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
-- Edward Norton -
I don’t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,
-- Eileen Collins -
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I have to prove myself five times over.
-- Eleanor MondaleSource : "Eleanor Poling, Daughter of Former Vice President, Dies at 51" by Kirk Semple, www.nytimes.com. September 17, 2011.
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When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.
-- Elizabeth Banks -
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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I look forward to proving something to myself and others.
-- Eric Lindros -
You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.
-- Ethel Merman -
I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
-- Ezra Koenig -
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We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
-- Garth Brooks -
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
-- George CanningSource : "A Dictionary of Thought" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 587), 1908.
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I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
-- Gerard Butler -
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
-- Gerrit Smith -
Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.
-- Gillian Anderson -
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
-- Gloria Steinem -
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If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.
-- Graham Kendall -
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
-- Guy Finley -
When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.
-- Guy PearceSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can't prove.
-- Hans HolzerSource : Hans Holzer (1991). “America's haunted houses: public and private”, Longmeadow Pr
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Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.
-- Heather Mills -
You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
-- Henri Poincare -
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I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
-- Henry Kravis -
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
-- Henry WottonSource : Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.35
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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
-- Herbie Hancock -
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
-- Holbrook JacksonSource : Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press
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Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.
-- Ilona AndrewsSource : Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.47, Penguin
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.
-- Jackie Morse KesslerSource : Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.
-- Jakob Nielsen -
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I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.
-- Jamie Moyer -
I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.
-- Jaromir Jagr -
The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!
-- Javad AlizadehSource : Humor & Caricature magazine, January 1996.
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There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
-- Jesse Ventura -
I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.
-- Jim Burke -
All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume -
You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.
-- John ConnollySource : John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
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I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.
-- Jon FitchSource : Source: bleacherreport.com
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My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
-- Joseph Estrada -
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
-- Josephine HartSource : Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”
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To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.
-- Julie Nixon Eisenhower -
you can never prove God; you can only find Him!
-- Kate Douglas WigginSource : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.345, e-artnow
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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
-- Kazuo Ishiguro -
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I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.
-- Keira Knightley -
Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do
-- Kendall Jenner -
I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.
-- Kobe Bryant -
I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.
-- Laura HillmanSource : Laura Hillman (2005). “I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
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Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.
-- Lauren Fleshman -
I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.
-- Lennox Lewis -
Illness is the proving ground of friendship.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -