Prove Quotes

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.