Spurs Quotes
184 Spurs quotes by 161 unique authors
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
— Harold W. Dodds
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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
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
— B. C. Forbes
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
— Josh Hartnett
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
— David Hume
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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
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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
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I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter…
— Jeremy Lin
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People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
— Michael Palin
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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
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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
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The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
— Christine Pelosi
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Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
— Robert Reich
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
— John Christopher
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She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister…
— Kate Chopin
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
— Pablo Neruda
Who Wrote These Spurs Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 184 Spurs Quotes, led by these top contributors: