„You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.“

„Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.“

—  Raymond Chandler Novelist, screenwriter 1888 - 1959

„There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.“

—  Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943

„You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me — Jane — here alone in the dark.
I miss you dreadfully!“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, buch "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

„Sometimes there's nothing you can do. […] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.“

—  Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book

Quelle: Briar's Book

„That, on the whole, if you have got the intrinsic qualities, you have got everything, and the preliminaries will prove attainable; but that if you have got only the preliminaries, you have yet got nothing.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Kontext: That, on the whole, if you have got the intrinsic qualities, you have got everything, and the preliminaries will prove attainable; but that if you have got only the preliminaries, you have yet got nothing. A man of real dignity will not find it impossible to bear himself in a dignified manner; a man of real understanding and insight will get to know, as the fruit of his very first study, what the laws of his situation are, and will conform to these.

„I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them—that is nothing but a phrase—they come to you.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

"Taming the Bicycle" (1917)

„It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.“

—  Graham Greene, buch The End of the Affair

Quelle: The End of the Affair

„I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.“

—  Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966 - 1997

„Have you run over anybody?“

—  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II 1921

Said to the Mayor of Waltham Forest who uses a mobility scooter, as quoted in "Duke of Edinburgh has fun with mobility scooter jokes on London visit" http://www.metro.co.uk/news/894691-duke-of-edinburgh-has-fun-with-mobility-scooter-jokes-on-london-visit, Metro (29 March 2012)

„… if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.“

—  Bret Easton Ellis, buch Imperial Bedrooms

Quelle: Imperial Bedrooms

„You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Kontext: You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else. When you realize this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness, or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else is responsible for the world and for yourself, for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes. Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity.

„If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.“

—  Clint Eastwood actor and director from the United States 1930

„Writers who try to prove something are unattractive to me, because there is nothing to prove and everything to imagine. So I let words and images emerge from within. If you do that, you might prove something in the process.“

—  Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994

The Paris Review interview (1984)
Kontext: I let characters and symbols emerge from me, as if I were dreaming. I always use what remains of my dreams of the night before. Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can’t be a lie. Writers who try to prove something are unattractive to me, because there is nothing to prove and everything to imagine. So I let words and images emerge from within. If you do that, you might prove something in the process.

„Cuz I have so much love, for you, do with it what you will; and I have nothing more to prove, do with it what you will, say it again; say it again.“

—  Natasha Bedingfield English singer and songwriter 1981

"Say It Again" from N.B. and Pocketful of Sunshine (2007)

„Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient“

—  Norman Vincent Peale, buch The Power of Positive Thinking

Quelle: The Power of Positive Thinking

„If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.“

—  William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910

„There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.“

—  Danielle Steel American author of romance novels 1947

„Better than nothing is not good enough for you!“

—  Greg Behrendt American comedian 1963

„If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen“

—  Jim Davis American cartoonist and creator of Garfield 1945