To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
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.
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
What do I like about Spurs? The flairness
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
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 spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.
Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
Art needs no spur beyond itself.
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.
I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.
Opposition is the very spur of love.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise