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I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life. -- Tim Duncan
Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land. -- Walter Scott
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves! -- William Shakespeare
The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people. -- Elizabeth Crook
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Avarice, the spur of industry. -- David Hume
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. -- Edmund Burke
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. -- Harold W. Dodds
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. -- Francis Quarles
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. -- Jeff Goodell
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. -- Harold W. Dodds
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. -- Xenophon
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. -- Neil Peart
Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work. -- Louis Bacon
When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment. -- Ken Jennings
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too. -- Burt Rutan
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. -- Eric Cantona
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? -- Marquis de Sade
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful. -- Inga Muscio
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. -- Patricia Hill Collins
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? -- Jules Verne
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. -- Anna Brackett
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others. -- James Surowiecki
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. -- Eric Stoltz
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes. -- Neil Peart
And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.' -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.' -- Said Nursi
Hunger's a great spur. -- Robert Carlyle
Continue to spur a running horse. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Vanity is often the unseen spur. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Art needs no spur beyond itself. -- Victor Hugo
Necessity is the spur of genius. -- Honore de Balzac
Envy's a sharper spur than pay. -- John Gay
Bravery is often too sharp a spur. -- Lajos Kossuth
Danger, the spur of all great minds. -- George Chapman
Opposition is the very spur of love. -- Tobias Smollett
Necessity is often the spur to genius. -- Honore de Balzac
True understanding is the spur of genius -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur. -- Joseph Joubert
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions. -- Janet Todd
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise -- John Milton
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. -- Hortense Calisher
Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. -- Carisa Bianchi
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. -- Douglas Hurd
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. -- Hyman Rickover
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. -- B. C. Forbes
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. -- Hannibal
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones -- Edmund Burke
Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it, -- Avril Lavigne
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives. -- Jeffrey Archer
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] -- George Herbert
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. -- Francis Quarles
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair. -- George Peele
Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them. -- Tom Kelley
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. -- John Gay
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. -- Michael Palin
As Hoffman later lamented, "The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. -- Joanna Hoffman
Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work. -- Joseph Stalin
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. -- Josh Hartnett
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. -- Horace Mann
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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. -- Jeremy Bentham
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future. -- John Christopher
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. -- Charles Horton Cooley
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. -- George Carey
the disinhibition caused by said brain damage, can also spur the infected individual to seek the pleasure of compulsive, casual sexual activity -- Chuck Palahniuk
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. -- Jonathan Swift
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. -- David Mallet
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. -- John Milton
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
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. -- Arthur Levitt
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. -- Emile Souvestre
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. -- Thierry Henry
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. -- Arthur Levitt
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. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
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. -- Jerome K. Jerome
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing -- Khalil Gibran
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Heather Mitts
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes. -- David Rubenstein
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. -- Michael Ritchie
When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience. -- Barack Obama
Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services. -- Robert Zoellick
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike. -- Percy Dearmer
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. -- Nick Lampson
Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community. -- Howard Coble
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth. -- Lou Jiwei
My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment. -- Margaret Beckett
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks. -- John Doerr
... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. -- May Sarton
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. -- Jerry Spinelli
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. -- Robin Gibb
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? -- William Butler Yeats
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment. -- Elizabeth Aston
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. -- John Locke
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. -- Vinton Cerf
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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