Spurs Quotations

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

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

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

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

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

If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

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

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

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

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

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

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

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

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

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

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

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

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

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

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

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

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.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Hunger's a great spur.

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.

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

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

Continue to spur a running horse.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

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

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

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.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Don't squat with your spurs on.