Sentence examples for driven to prove from inspiring English sources

Ms. Maggs described "Tiff" as a study grind who is driven to prove herself.

Maybe I had a chip on my shoulder, and I was driven to prove something to the world.

Then Abraham H. Foxman proceeds to construct an airtight case, as if driven to prove Arendt sadly correct.

She seems younger than she is: she has the anxious vitality of a person driven to prove herself — the first to jump off a bridge into freezing water.

Ms. Williams isn't bitter, but she sounds hardened by it all, and no less driven to prove wrong those who counted her out so many years ago.

If Gibbs hadn't had that embittered edge, and hadn't been driven to prove himself, there's a good chance he wouldn't have produced nearly the volume of high-quality material that he did.

They have a hunger and drive to prove themselves.

"The [AG's] entire investigation was driven to try to prove or create evidence that what the testimonies were saying was correct," Torero says.

I'm more immersed in poetry lately, less distracted by sex and romance, and though the need to make a living continues, I'm less driven to try to prove myself.

Or perhaps he balances doubts about his enterprise with an inexorable drive to prove himself wrong.

They also result from living in a world that tells us day after day that we're morally bad, which can spark a painful drive to prove that we're morally good — whether we're out or not.