We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
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.
For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. ]
Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.
There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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 tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.
Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.