Guts Quotes

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. (E. M. Forster)
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. View quote
August Strindberg
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. View quote
Alan Moore
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her. View quote
John Millington Synge
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. View quote
Bear Bryant
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we? View quote
James D. Watson
In politics, guts is all. View quote
Barbara Castle
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. View quote
Holly Near
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. View quote
Lee Trevino
Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out. (Ruud van Nistelrooy)
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. View quote
John Updike
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom. View quote
Banksy
It's been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln ... He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that's what he did. View quote
Louis C.K.
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. View quote
Norman Mailer
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns. View quote
Queen Rania of Jordan
A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. View quote
Edward Albee
That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion. View quote
Cassandra Clare
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams. View quote
Sandra Bernhard
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match. (Ingrid Newkirk)
The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims. View quote
Ann Coulter
He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.... View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. View quote
Steven Pressfield