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Prove Myself Quotes

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.
- Eric Bana

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.
- Columba Bush

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
- Gerard Butler

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
- Dennis Eckersley

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.
- Doug Flutie

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

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.
- Jeff Kinney

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
- Taylor Kitsch

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

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
- Jeremy Lin

I have to prove myself five times over.
- Eleanor Mondale

I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I'll prove myself. You'll be proud of me.
- L J Smith

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
- Indra Nooyi

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
- Rachel Roy

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
- Chris Stein

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.
- Michael Strahan

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.
- Anna Torv

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear,
- Ned Vizzini

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.
- Randy West

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
- John Woolman

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