Top 48 Takes Guts Quotes
#1. It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Morrissey
#2. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer
Sol Stein
#3. Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
Sarah Dessen
#4. It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
Pete Wentz
#5. It takes guts to go after your dreams, and well, no guts, no story.
Lynn Isenberg
#6. Staying mad is easy. Forgiving someone takes guts.
Jillian Dodd
#7. Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
Seth Godin
#8. Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
Pema Chodron
#9. We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#10. Taking a risk to survive isn't that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.
Sarah Noffke
#12. Anyone can exist. Most fools do. It takes guts to truly Live.-RVM
R.v.m.
#13. Staring down hard truth takes guts.
Joan Bauer
#14. No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios:
Pebble : Beach
Raindrop : Ocean
Needle : Haystack
Zadie Smith
#15. Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.
Blaize Clement
#20. I'm not afraid," Zacharov says, still looking at Anton. "It takes guts to kill a man with your hands. You don't have the balls.
Holly Black
#21. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
Georges St-Pierre
#22. You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.
David Baldacci
#23. Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.
Kate Bornstein
#24. It takes effort to say no when our heart and brains and guts and, most important, pride are yearning to say yes. Practice.
Cole Harmonson
#25. It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
Piper Perabo
#26. It takes real guts to ignore or even alienate 93% of customers, focusing instead on the 7% of the market that is fanatical about you and willing to put up with the trade-offs.
Verne Harnish
#27. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.
Erma Bombeck
#28. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
Carson Daly
#29. It doesn't take guts to run away. It takes fear, a lot of fear."
His eyes widen, "Fear?"
"It's time to run when the fear of the unknown is safer than what you do know," I say.
Juanita Ray
#30. A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
Betty Friedan
#31. In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a 'Ghoul'.
Sui Ishida
#32. It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.
Seth Godin
#33. It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.
Seth
#34. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.
Indigo Wren
#35. Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch.
Irene S. Levine
#36. For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch
#37. Ah, critics! How unforgiving they are toward anything that isn't, in some special way, known only to them, absolutely first-rate. Do they ever guess, I wonder, how much energy and guts and sheer talent it takes to be second-rate?
Robertson Davies
#38. What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost - or prove that you're willing to lose it?
Kirsten Miller
#39. It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
Dick Cavett
#40. If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
Pete Townshend
#41. As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.
Amos Lee
#42. To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.
Jestoni Revealed
#43. La-La Land's a land of losers. . . . We're all just a bunch of dreamers with a nickel in our shoe. Why do we come out here chasing dreams that are so hard to catch? It takes your heart, your guts and your liver just to find the lock, and then 999 times out of a grand you can't find the key.
Robert Wright Campbell
#44. There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
Evan G. Galbraith
#45. I admire people who can step out on their own and work alone - that takes a lot of guts. But I'd rather have the camaraderie on and off camera of working as a part of a group.
Sarah Baker
#46. I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack
Tana French
#47. It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.
Venus Williams
#48. Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
Richard Yates
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