Spurs Quotes - Page 4

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.