John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that 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.
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.
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.
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.
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.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
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.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.