Top 248 Spur Quotes & Sayings

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

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

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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

Thriving small and midsize businesses are essential to spur economic growth and to create new jobs.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

It is mostly a spur of the moment decision to try out an actor's voice for a particular song.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

I take decisions on the spur of a moment.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

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.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

When the crowd's against you, sometimes that can spur you on alone.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

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

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Transfer speculation during the off-season does spur you on.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

One of my biggest goals is to spur economic development in communities and neighborhoods that have not had that before.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

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

Hunger's a great spur.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Continue to spur a running horse.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

True understanding is the spur of genius

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

All my tattoos have been spur-of-the-moment ones and not planned.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.