Spurs Quotes

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

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my work. However, he read through it and said, 'This is useless. What makes the stock go up and down?' That comment acted as a spur. Thereafter, I focused my analysis on seeking to identify the factors that were strongly correlated to a stock's price movement as opposed to looking at all the fundamentals. Frankly, even today, many analysts still don't know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.

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

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

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 and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Don't squat with your spurs on.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.

It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur, and I love the club.

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

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

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

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

Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

Continue to spur a running horse.

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

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

Hunger's a great spur.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

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

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

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

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

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

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

True understanding is the spur of genius

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

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

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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

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

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

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.