Spur Quotes

125 Spur quotes by 117 unique authors

Avarice, the spur of industry. — David Hume
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,… — Ken Jennings
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… — Nick Lampson
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. — Michael Palin
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… — Neil Peart
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.… — Neil Peart
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. — Robert Reich
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… — Marquis de Sade
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… — James Surowiecki
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
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… — Jules Verne
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future. — John Christopher
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things. — Patrick Rothfuss
It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a… — Alyson Noel
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… — Jerry Spinelli
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… — Khalil Gibran
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… — Malcolm Gladwell
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… — Jerome K. Jerome
Continue to spur a running horse. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to… — Miguel de Cervantes
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be… — C.S. Lewis
We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear… — Steven Erikson

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