Top 105 Proving Quotes

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman – a Sicilian! – and if she didn’t like something, she’d let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

In a small way, I’m driven by proving people wrong: because of the background I come from, I think a lot of people have doubted that I would get this far.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I’m not right for a part, and really fight for it. There’s something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

I’m not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn’t to prove people wrong. You can’t worry about what other people say.

Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don’t actually listen to people who know things.

You definitely get different stereotypes and I’ve worked so hard, especially in the beginning, proving not that I was just more than a video girl but that you can do more than people expect you can and carry yourself a certain way and have some type of integrity or credibility.

Money, ego, revenge and the seduction of being a media darling is pretty powerful stuff, and, John Bolton is proving he’s not immune.

There’s always going to be obstacles and people that doubt you. So it’s about proving people wrong and bettering yourself and trying to be the best you.

A lot of people thought you couldn’t be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that’s wrong. And it’s better for me as a performer.

Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He’s tactically intelligent, and it’s tough to play in front of the defense.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

It’s the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we’ll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose youthful dreams of being a successful Hollywood screenwriter never materialized, is proving to the world that he does indeed have a talent for concocting fictional stories.

For me, it’s all about taking things a step at a time, proving I’m good enough and on the right path.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

There’s nothing better than proving people wrong.

It’s good to be a cynic. I’m a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

The journey towards restoring balance to markets, led by the kingdom, is proving successful despite the challenges.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.

I feel like I’ve been proving people wrong all my life.

People have said to me, ‘It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,’ but I’ve never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are proving to be formidable because there’s a solid community behind it, there’s a use for it, and it’s got a great market capitalisation. I think that’s going to be a winner.

I think you’re always fighting a losing battle when you’re Scottish and I don’t think that’s right. I think the way that people look at Scottish football is wrong, but at the same time, we have to start proving it on the park and start showing it again.

Cricketers and Bollywood stars are attracted to each other because they are both well-known in their fields, and the constant pressure of proving oneself doesn’t exist.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I’ll try to do that for as long as I can.

I’m saying right now that if you’re going to serve this nation in a federal position, you need to start proving that you’re willing to sacrifice first. I’m saying… that people are sick and tired of the millionaires running the system.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Proving naysayers wrong is a powerful tool, and it can keep the fire burning for preparation that will keep you in the game of your choice for a long time.

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

Every time I step onto the stage, it’s not only proving to the audience that I’m capable but to myself.

All of my life, I’ve loved proving people wrong.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters – proving what I’ve always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

‘Fight Master’ is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That’s something it has in common with ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

I think towards the end of my career, I’m the man. But right now, I’ve still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I’m not going to believe the hype.

I’m not sure if I’d call myself an extrovert. I think I’m a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it’s one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I’m not that nice all the time.

Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.

I have to keep proving myself, and that’s what I am willing to do.

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

The way I feel is I have to keep going out there and proving people. I don’t want to be just a guy who has a couple of good years and then that’s it.

The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic world, however, the historical existence of the Amazons, or any matriarchal society, has long been a raging issue.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

It’s time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven’t we seen these documents?

There are exceptional schools in many of our most disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth. Proving they can get it done for kids, no matter what their circumstances.

I started out fairly easier but I had the problem of proving that I’m actually talented. People think you have a privilege over others and I had to keep working harder.

For me, It’s not necessarily about proving people wrong, but proving to myself that I can do it my way and still win.

Something like ‘Much Ado’ happens, and even ‘Avengers’ happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

I love proving that I can do something.

2019 is proving to be a golden year of Malayalam cinema… As an actor, I have always classified films as either good ones or bad ones… I had five films that released this year in the cinemas and our audiences liked every one of them.

I think that every single fight you have is to prove yourself. Even if you’re the world champion, the UFC champion of the world, you’re still proving yourself; people are coming to beat you.

I still feel like I have to go out there and get my job done and still produce. It’s not about proving, it’s about progressing and just getting better.

In New Japan, it is kept very simple. It’s about proving to the other man or woman that you are the better person. And guess what? It’s about championships.

We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.

In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can – but I can do other things. It’s having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.

When you have these huge personalities at home you have to keep proving yourself to survive.

I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I’m no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, ‘Is this an autobiographical story?’

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn’t be an actress, but I’m proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

The key to proving that there’s a black hole is showing that there’s a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. The way the star moves around the center of the galaxy is very much like the way the planets orbit the sun.

Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.

I’m still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I’m proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.

Our political system seems to be proving itself almost incapable of dealing with what’s been put before it. The decisions it is making, or fluffing, are so vital and yet are inevitably so compromised by the endless political calculations of all involved.

I’m tired of proving myself.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I think as you get older, you realize there’s always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It’s less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it’s more about challenging myself to keep this level up.

It’s important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it’s beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.

I’m a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

Since I started playing basketball, I had goals. I was going to do everything step by step. I’m proving it, my basketball is getting better.

In general, signalling theory says that if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something, and you choose the noisy way, that means chances are it’s because you couldn’t do the good way in the first place.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence applications are proving to be especially useful in the ocean, where there is both so much data – big surfaces, deep depths – and not enough data – it is too expensive and not necessarily useful to collect samples of any kind from all over.

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, EPA has sought to undo and correct the Obama administration’s failed regulatory decisions, proving that environmental protection and economic prosperity go hand-in-hand.

Isn’t it odd that you have to keep proving you’re alive?

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.

You have to keep proving yourself – every film – until the audience believes you can do anything.

I’m an Ultimate Fighter winner at 170. At 155, I’m always proving myself. I have nothing to prove to any of the fans, but to myself, it’s my skillset.

Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has scored the most goals in the league, even though some doubted him. He has proved everyone wrong. I am trying to go down that path myself, proving every doubter wrong.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I try my best to squeeze in a simple exercise routine whenever I can – even though this is proving to be more challenging than I expect.

My family were really happy for me that I’m going to such a big club as Manchester United. They definitely were a bit nervous because of my high price, but I’m going to stay focused on proving my worth.

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

As young musicians, we cut our teeth on doing gigs at clubs and functions and colleges. That was really the proving ground for young musicians, learning songs, doing covers of different songs that were popular, learning different genres of music.

I love proving people wrong and proving myself right and my coaches.

On the strength of Vonnegut’s reputation, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

You have to keep proving yourself over and over again.

There’s more women stars in Nashville all the time. They’re proving they can do the job the same as a man.

People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She’s freaking amazing! She’s doing that, and she’s unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that’s just what I’m proving to people.

People have been skeptical of the Women’s March on Washington. Our legitimacy only came from us proving to the rest of the world that we’re capable.

I feel like I’m a great fighter and have been proving it over and over again, running through all types of fighters, and I’ve passed every test with flying colors.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I don’t think you’ve done something by getting a job. I think you’ve done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I’m proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I’m singing and writing about these days. It’s all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

There’s no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.