Spur Quotes

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. View quote
Francis Quarles
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. View quote
Maurice Gibb
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry. View quote
Henry Taylor
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Edmund Burke
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. (John Locke)
A good horse should be seldom spurred. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort. View quote
Albert Bandura
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. View quote
Eric Cantona
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control. View quote
Terry Eagleton
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. View quote
Douglas Hurd
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. View quote
Thierry Henry
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace. View quote
Albert Speer
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. View quote
Charles Mackay
Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land. (Walter Scott)
Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. View quote
John Milton
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. View quote
John Locke
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. View quote
Charles Cooley
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry. View quote
Arthur Levitt Jr