Quotes About Guts

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

She was everything he avoided—youth, innocence, inexperience. And she had everything he wanted—guts, wisdom and compassion.

A coragem de muita gente não tem outra explicação. Não é sempre por valentia que os homens são valentes, diz La Rochefoucauld.

I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts. For the briefest sliver in time, the world shimmered and Sugar saw her life as an enviable jewel: a shining gem radiating energy and possibility that no one but she would ever possess, no matter what its deficiencies.

There are devils in hell waiting to plunge red-hot pitchforks into your guts, Sergeant Berry.' 'No doubt, but until I get there I've a job to do.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

Courage is exhilarating.

Basically, I like anything with guts - Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones.

I like listening to Ken Clarke. He has had guts in taking his own party on on Europe - and I am a massive pro-European - and I think he stuck with what he believed in through thick and thin even when many have opposed him.

When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being—and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners. To react like that brings you closer to impassivity—and so to strength. Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger. Both are things we suffer from, and yield to.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

If you tell your competition your tactics, they'll steal them and it will cost you. But if you tell them your strategy, it won't matter. Because they don't have the guts or the persistence to turn your strategy into their strategy.

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

major paused in his jeep. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Are you sick, soldier?" "Nosir. I'm just spilling my guts for the hell of it." "Maybe you'd better report to the medics.

It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

I mean, I try to show my guts and everything, you know, good energy on the court. But I think it's most important, you know, shouldn't be too many up and downs, especially downs.

I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.

She would think I was an idiot, and I knew it. Only if I had not whistled, for the rest of my life I would remember that moment and how I had wanted to whistle but had not had the guts.

I'm not scared of Tiger. I'm not scared to go head-to-head. I'm not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

It seems that these old cards were conceived deep in the guts of human experience, at the most profound level of the human psyche. It is to this level in ourselves that they will speak.